The characterization of Christian Science as a non-Christian cult is one of the "impositions on the public" (see Manual of The Mother Church, Art. XXXIII, Sect. 2) that the Committee on Publication is repeatedly called upon to correct. But it is also an imposition that all Christian Scientists can help to lift through the very quality of their Christian lives, Christian discipleship, and Christian works of healing.
Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, makes the unqualified statement: "Christian Science and Christianity are one" (Science and Health, p. 372). This puts a tremendous responsibility on all of us to correct whatever is unchristian or unchristlike in our own thought and action.
In the Church Manual our Leader specifically requires of the Committee on Publication that its correction of impositions and injustices in public thought be done "in a Christian manner. " Sometimes a long, patient correspondence is carried on with a critic in the endeavor to heal his basic misconceptions of what Christian Science is and teaches. This kind of personal correspondence is seldom published, but it is an important element in the leavening of thought among those who help to mold public opinion.
