Article March 9, 1907 Issue

"BE STILL, AND SEE THE SALVATION OF GOD."

Peter E. Mackay

London, Ontario, Feb. 22, 1907.

Dear Mrs. Eddy:—I have many times desired to address you with a letter, but have refrained from doing so lest I should trespass on your precious time. Now that the desire is again upon me, I yield to the gentle impulse to take up the pen and pay tribute to your worth and work.

The publication of falsehoods and worthless statements, under the name of "history," is a breach of moral law and an insult to the intelligence of the age. Were it not for the restraining power of Christian Science, curbing human resentment, my hostility to this would be liable to overstep the bounds of "righteous indignation." I am a native of Scotland—the land of Wallace and of Bruce, of John Knox and Henry Drummond, and, as my name indicates, have come from a clan whose claim to chivalry is as clear as its title to valor. I was born in the heart of the Highlands, and spent my boyhood days on the estate of the Duke of Sutherland, whose illustrations ancestor—the noble Earl of Sutherland—was the first to sign the National Covenant (an historic covenant designed to protect religious liberty in 1638) by thrusting his sword into his left arm and writing his name in characters of blood. Little wonder, then, that the spirit of the old Covenanters should animate my feelings, when I see you persecuted by an unprincipled portion of the press in a periodical which must have lost its sense of honor and justice, its pride, dignity, and self-respect.

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