The necessity for maintaining the purity of our Christian Science literature and preserving in its every phase the integrity of the movement, is becoming increasingly apparent to every sincere student of Mrs. Eddy's teachings. That this desire for exactness is not universally appreciated, is evidenced by occasional misguided attempts to propagate an irresponsible class of literature bearing more or less on the subject of Christian Science, as well as by the criticisms of some who object to the announcement of Mrs. Eddy's name at the church services as the author of the Christian Science text-book.
In the first place it should be remembered that Christian Science is just what its name implies,—the Science of Christianity. It entirely rejects a haphazard or fortuitous theory of religion and relies wholly on immutable premises and invariable conclusions. The adulteration of any science would destroy its exactness of application and finally annul its right to the name of science. This fact calls for an unusual degree of watchfulness on the part of Christian Scientists, because of those who are endeavoring, either ignorantly or maliciously, to cast discredit on its claims. The world accepts without argument the claims of the so-called material sciences, such as the science of mathematics, so that none of these is at all endangered.
It is one of the many inconsistencies of mortal mind that men are apt to accept at once the logic of any materialistic philosophy or science, while entirely rejecting myriads of demonstrations of the Science of being, or considering it necessary to submit them to long and rigid scrutiny. This of course is because spiritual things are hard of comprehension by the average mortal, who prefers to deal only with things on his immediate plane of living. Even mathematics and music, which should be metaphysically regarded, are usually cognized from a purely material standpoint. If men would give to the study of Christian Science a tithe of the time they devote to delving into materiality, Christian Science would soon be universally accepted, understood, and uniformly demonstrated.
