THE AUCKLAND SYNOD AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1921, Page 8

THE AUCKLAND SYNOD AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In your issue of the 22nd instant, under the heading “Healing by Faith,’’ it is stated that Bishop Averill urged the clergy to study carefully the Lambeth Conference report on Christian Science in particular. One of the 300 Bishops present at that conference gave it as his opinion, as stated in the Overseas Daily Mail, that the report was superficial, and based on insufficient knowledge of Christian Science, and he suggested an earnest. practical study of the subject. The secretary of the committee set up to enquire into Christian Science and other teachings (the Bishop of Barron-in-Furness), invited a prominent Christian Scientist of London to appear before them, as they were “very anxious to state quite correctly the claims of Christian Science, and the foundations on which the claims rest.” The invitation was accepted, and after the report was made public, this gentleman wrote: “Lambeth, 1920, has failed miserably to understand the simplest claims of Christian Science. The Bishop has Neither correctly stated the claims of Christian Science, nor has he understood in the least the foundations on which Its claims reSt.” In view of these opinions from both sides it is easy to see that no true conclusion can be arrived at from a report based on the misconception of the Bishops. Anyone who wishes to know what Christian Science really teaches can do 'so by a first-hand study of its text book (“Science and Health,” with key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy), and if he proves that he understands what be reads by overcoming sin and disease, he will be in a position to judge righteous judgment. He will also find that the errors of Christian Science itemised in the report do not exist outside of a misunderstanding of the teaching; that they are the result of an attempt ’to discern spiritual and eternal truth from a (material and temporal viewpoint.—l am, etc., MADGE BELL. Christian Science Committee on Publication. Auckland, October 26, 1921.