Article August 3, 1929 Issue

An item in a recent issue of your paper which compares...

Thomas C. Hollingshead, Committee on Publication for the State of Idaho,—Twin Falls

Idaho Citizen

An item in a recent issue of your paper which compares a horsefly under certain conditions to a Christian Scientist, recalls the statement of Paul in his first epistle to the Corinthians which aptly fits the present incident. He writes, "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

Now Paul did not feel offended at what he calls the "natural man"—by which term he means the ordinary human being—because he considered "the things of the Spirit of God" to be foolishness; and the Christian Scientist does not feel offended at this slighting remark which found its way into your esteemed paper. Paul knew that if the ordinary mortal of his day did understand spiritual things they would no longer seem foolish, but quite the reverse; and your readers who do understand Christian Science feel the same way about the writer of this item.

Could he see the vast army of those who have been healed of every variety of disease, often after being given up by the best available doctors; could he see the hundreds who have been freed from lives of drunkenness; could he see the homes once shrouded in deepest unhappiness, want, and woe, but now bright and joyous; could he know the thousands who have been turned away from all manner of sins and in whose hearts now glows the desire to do right by their fellow-men; could he see all these and hear their testimony that this change for the better was brought about through the study of and endeavor to live the teachings of Christian Science, he would be more considerate in his judgment of this system of religion.

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