Article April 29, 1933 Issue

In your issue of November 25, you quote a clergyman's...

Carl Walter Gehring, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,—Steubenville

Herald-Star

In your issue of November 25, you quote a clergyman's interesting comments on Thanksgiving. At one point he has made a misleading statement, which requires correction.

The clergyman declared that he could not deal with hard times by the Christian Science method of ignoring it. This description of the Christian Science method of dealing with depression or any other of the world's ills is based on misconception. Christian Scientists do not ignore trouble; they meet it and fight it. Their method, however, may be misunderstood, because they do not make much mental or physical ado about the problem to be overcome. Christian Scientists, individually and collectively, are facing the business ills of today bravely and hopefully. They at all times try to be grateful for the good things of life which they know are based on spiritual growth. They take human footsteps to help themselves and others and, in outstanding evidence of this, a symbolic activity of their courage and faith, is the construction of a new Publishing House in Boston, Massachusetts, during a time when the temptation is to retrench.

If striving to know daily more of the goodness and omnipotence of God is ignoring depression and kindred ills, then indeed Christian Scientists are guilty of this clergyman's implication, but not otherwise.

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