CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 440, 4 December 1930, Page 5

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Sir, —The great majority of Christians arc happy in their Mother Church, therefore why become a malcontent and distrust the peace of mind of one’s fellow-man’s religion? I venture to say that if Mrs Eddy lived in Wanganui at the present time and the Rev. Tye publicly declared from the top of Duric Hill that “the boil on the back Ou his neck was not imaginary, and that Mrs Eddy could not cure it,” Mrs Eddy would immediately have the Rev. Tye brought before the magistrate, who. no doubt, would in turn, peremptorily order the offender to keep the peace or go to gaol.

One wonders why Mr Tye accuses the late Mrs Eddy of having amassed a fortune of half a million dollars sterling. Does he know from what source the lady in question derived this wealth? Did she inherit it or did she merit it. It would appear that the Rev. Tye has come to the conclusion that Airs Eddy amassed this fortune as the founder of the faith of Chrisi tian Science.

Assuming my interpretation of Air Tye’s statement to be right, why should he worry about how much money Airs Eddy or any leader of any Christian faith earns’ What about, removing the beam from one’s own eye before disturbing the mote in the other person’s eye? Surely Air Tye is aware that the leader of his own faith, namely, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, draws a yearly salary of £15,000, and lives sumptuously in Lambeth Palace free of rent, while tty Bishop of London draws a salary of £' >,OOO a year, and lives free of rent in Fulham Palace, while within a stonethrow of these ecclesiastical palaces thousands of starving humanity rot in the slums. “Christ had nowhere Ito lay his head.” while the archbishops live in the luxury of palaces. ■Why then worry and challenge other people’s religious beliefs.

The Chinese have for centuries past worshipped Confucius, while for generations past, almost every other Biblically-founded faith has sent missionaires to China in an endeavour to convert the Chinese to their respective faiths. But why worry or molest the Chinese, or any other nationality? “The proof of the pudding is in the

eating of it,” and I say without fear of contradiction, that the missionaries have had no more effect upon the religious or worship life of the Chinese as a race, than one drop of ink dropped from anyone’s fountain pen into tho middle of the Pacific Ocean would have in changing the azure blue colour of that sea. So why worry other people? Clutha McKenzie is reported to have told his audience at the Town Hall, Marton, some weeks ago, that the blind did not want sympathy. They were perfectly happy. God provided their comforts. I say that the soul is the moral and emotional part u.f man’s and woman’s nature, the divine spark of which gives dignity and glory to the clay from which God moulds humanity. Therefore, know thyself first; discard all things temporal and adhere in practice to the real, the concrete, the everlasting wealth—the care of the soul. “What profiteth a man if he gains the whole world and lose his own soul?” As Archdeacon Creed Meredith says: “Think peace continuously.” So I say pray continuously, “Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.”—l am,, etc.

RICHA HD WEDDERSPOON