The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-19
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Christian Science

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 In the article, Dose of Religion Cure
 for Many Ills" published in The Age
 Herald of Monday, June r, the following
 assertion was made: "A good, old-fash-
 toned dose of religion does all that Christian Science New Thought and all other things combined claim to do.. In
 the first place. we wish to say that in
 the earlier days of the Christian Sci ence movement, when there was a gen. eral misapprekension of it's teaching and
 the results it accomplishes, it was not
 unusual to hear Christian Science classi
 ned with New Thought and all the other things" but in recent years since its teachings have been better under-
 stood, 1t is no longer so classified by the well informed. Christian Science
 differs from all systems of religions and
 headings in that it's teachings are based unreservedly on the life and works of Jesus and it's adherents endeavor to learn to emulate Him in all His ways" Science and Health, page 37.) Mrs Eddy says, on page 313 of Science and Health, that Jesus plunged beneath the material surface of things and found the spiritual cause" So the followers of Christian Science study the teachings and works of the Master to gain the spiritual understanding of the principle by which they are accomplished, and to prove the statement that works that do shall ye do also"
 The sentence following the one quoted above, If man accepts Christ he will do away with lack of health and happi- ness arising from uncleanness" is one which Christian Scientists are proving to be true in their daily lives. In the sentence in which Christian Sci epce is referred to as claims to do," I wish to say that Christian Science is not based on ''claims'' or creeds or dog mas but on facts, shown in positive, definite and undeniable results
 Mrs. Eddy says, in Science and Health, page 2n, ''The error or the ages is preaching without practice,'' and it is the purpose of this teaching to correct this error. Everyone who is abreast of the times knows what Christian Science has actually accomplished in the world work and how in every quarter of the globe it is carrying peace and relief to | the suffering. Right here in our own city testimonies of it's actual healing power can be obtained from some of the most reliable, intelligent and represen- ! tative citizensv-citizens of the type who consider facts not claims Christian Science agrees with the. speaker that right living and right thinking produce healthy minds ana DodleS, put IL nOluS ] to the scriptural statement that God l is no respecter of persons" and teaches that as all can be spiritually well,'' so can the effect from this cause follow | that all can be physically we'll"
 l "A good, old-fashioned dose of religion
 might be variously interpreted by the different Christian denominations, and
 even by divisions of the same denomina- tion, but to the Christian Scientist it I has but one meaning--the religion which Jesus taught and lived, and we find l that he healed the sick, gave sighs to the blind, caused the lame to walk, cleansed the lepers, not with the aid of sur geons, nor did he rely upon medicine nor material aid Of any kind; but through h His infinite, love for mankind and His correct understanding of God and man 1 in His image and likeness" James tells us (James, 1-sT, Pure religion and un- l defiled before God and the Father is l this. to visit the fatherless and widows | in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world" This dose of old-fashioned religion as administered 1 by Jesus, and which is none other than 1 Christian Science, needs no material ais1 1 to make man every whit whole both spiritually and physically.
 1 STATE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE.