Mrs. Gudrun G. Jensen, Committee on Publication for Norway,
In an article about "Religious Currents in the Newer Literature" a critic in a recent issue of your paper mentioned Christian Science as a substitute for Christianity which wastes time and energy.
George Allison Holland, Committee on Publication for the State of Kentucky,
Christian Scientists do not recognize that disease belongs to any particular season, or that "wet feet and chilly winds" are productive of physical discords.
Louis Potts, Committee on Publication for Cheshire, England,
In the course of his remarks on the subject of faith healing, a bishop, referring to Christian Science, says, "It has brought incalculable benefit to Christian people.
Arthur P. DeCamp, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,
The article on "Christian Science and Medicine" which appeared in your issue of recent date indicates such a mistaken sense of the attitude of Christian Scientists toward the practice of medicine that I am sure you will grant me space to present the subject from the Christian Science viewpoint.
Carrington Hening, Committee on Publication for New Jersey,
A medical doctor says, "The Christian Scientist will direct his thought and prayers so that a certain ailment may be healed," under the theory that concentration of thought on a certain part of the body causes the blood to rush to that part of the body.
Charles E. Heitman, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
By way of correcting any false impression that may have been conveyed by the statement of a clergyman published in your issue of recent date, please permit me to say that, while Christian Science denies the existence of evil as a part of God's spiritual creation, it by no means ignores it as a phase of human experience.
The
Psalmist of long ago sang reverently, "O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker;" while in Romans we read: "It is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
In the Christian Science Sentinel of June 13 we announced the postage required for remailing the Christian Science periodicals to points in the United States.
with contributions from F. Alice Lawman, Josephine Rea Ammons, Halfdan Gyth Dehli, Charlotte Bouché, Norbert Popper, Rena Morrison Ripley, Cynthia E. Frye, Anna B. Sotherland
The attention of clerks and committees of branch churches in the United States and Canada, having in charge arrangements for lectures, is called to the necessity of having the information reach the Editorial Department at least four weeks before the date of the lecture, in order to insure publication in the Sentinel.
Faced suddenly with unusual financial problems, and seeking spiritual healing, I was induced to read the Christian Science Sentinel, and in April, 1910, purchased my first copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
It was about three years ago that we called in the doctor because our child was ill; and during the two years following, one illness succeeded another, until at last heart and kidney disease remained in a very bad form.
Wallace W. Neill
with contributions from Ethel G. Neill
Being deeply grateful to Christian Science for the many blessings that have been experienced in my family, and in the hope that this testimony may be of some benefit to seekers after Truth, I set forth the following facts in proof that God is Life.
The truth of Christian Science has awakened me to acknowledge that "surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not;" for before Christian Science found me I was an alien, a wanderer in the land of bondage, having suffered from heart disease and a deep-seated lung trouble for some years.
Eight years ago a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy was given to me by a dear sister, who had received many healings as a result of studying this textbook.
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with contributions from F. Alice Lawman, Josephine Rea Ammons, Halfdan Gyth Dehli, Charlotte Bouché, Norbert Popper, Rena Morrison Ripley, Cynthia E. Frye, Anna B. Sotherland