THOSE
to whom the practicability of Christian Science has been revealed are fully assured that the understanding of God, divine Love, can be applied in everyday living to any particular task, with good and lasting results.
Charles W. J. Tennant, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
Your readers must be grateful for the tolerance shown by the editorial in your issue of January 12, which deplored the deliberate raising of a religious controversy over a question in which the religious beliefs of those concerned should play no part, the Girl Guide movement being nonsectarian and undenominational.
Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
Recent issues of Emanu-El have contained some interesting letters regarding the racial and religious status of the Jew who has embraced Christian Science.
John T. Ferry, Committee on Publication for Western Australia,
In a recent issue of your paper, you quote from an address delivered by a doctor wherein he says, "Christian Science in one of its aspects is an organized system of quackery allied to religion.
J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
A letter printed in the February 16 issue of your paper, under the heading "Christian Science Lecture Reviewed," although apparently written without intentional misrepresentation of Christian Science, nevertheless conveyed to your readers wrong impressions of that religion, and I should like to correct at least a few of the misleading statements it contained.
There
seems to be a growing tendency on the part of some teachers to solicit pupils for their classes, and to permit others to do so without objection or correction.
While
the healing of disease through spiritual means has come quite generally to be recognized, it is not so commonly acknowledged that the same divine Principle is available to solve all the problems which confront mankind.
How simply does Matthew bear record in the eighth chapter of his Gospel of the healing works of the Master! He writes, "When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick.
Christian Science came to me with its healing light more than twenty years ago, when a neighbor told my grandmother of her mother's healing and gave grandmother some copies of the Sentinel.
When Christian Science was brought to my notice thirteen years ago, I did not at first readily grasp its teachings because I read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, in an argumentative mental attitude.
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