Article March 26, 1927 Issue

In the Forward of recent issue, under the heading "Flat-Irony,"...

Robert Ramsay, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,—Glasgow

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In the Forward of recent issue, under the heading "Flat-Irony," there is a statement about Christian Science which I trust you will allow me to correct. The writer of the article states that he remembers "reading a Christian Science tract in which the author gravely quoted Edward Gibbon as an authority on the miracles of the New Testament," and accuses the author of the tract, or pamphlet, of being too thick-headed to grasp the sarcasm of Gibbon's writings. I, also, remember the Christian Science pamphlet referred to; but the point made by the pamphlet was that Gibbon admits that it was accepted by the early Christians, for some three hundred years, that healing the sick was part of the religion which had been handed down to them from the early disciples of Jesus. This was quoted to deny the contention that the healing works recorded in the New Testament were limited to the time of Jesus and his immediate followers.

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