Article October 16, 1926 Issue

In your recent issue you copied a joke in which a little...

Fred Yould, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,—La Grange

Reporter

In your recent issue you copied a joke in which a little girl—supposedly attending a Christian Science Sunday School—was spoken of in a manner intended to ridicule Christian Science. To correct any erroneous impression this may have made upon your readers, I respectfully request the courtesy of your columns for the following brief explanation. Neither the children in Christian Science nor the adults ever avoid the effects of an accident, or eradicate disease, by the mere repetition of a word or a combination of words. It is not recorded in the Bible that Jesus healed a single malady, or performed any of his wonderful works, simply by repeating the word "truth." However, he did say, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." The truth to which Christ Jesus referred is the scientific and orderly knowledge of God, and of man's eternal sonship with the Father, "whom to know aright is Life eternal" (Science and Health, Pref., p. vii).

A study of the Bible in connection with the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, reveals to students of Christian Science that natural scientific relationship between God and man which enables even the little children in Christian Science to avail themselves of the protecting care of God, who is ever present Love. The operation of spiritual law in the daily experience of tens of thousands of Christian Scientists is the "sign of Immanuel, or 'God with us,'—a divine influence ever present in human consciousness and repeating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,

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