An earnest student writes to me: "Would it be asking too much of you to explain more fully why you call Christian Science the higher criticism?"
I called Christian Science the higher criticism in my Dedicatory Message to The Mother Church, June 10, 1906, when I said, "This Science is a law of divine Mind, . . . an ever-present help. Its presence is felt, for it acts and acts wisely, always unfolding the highway of hope, faith, understanding."
I now repeat another proof, namely, that Christian Science is the higher criticism because it criticises evil, disease, and death—all that is unlike God, good—on a Scriptural basis, and approves or disapproves according to the word of God. In the next edition of Science and Health I shall refer to this.
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