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Space is courteously asked in which to correct a visiting minister's misstatement in a sermon recently reported in your paper.

Unquestionably, the minister was referring to Christian Science when he remarked, "There is a bloodless cult in our country to-day who say that the blood of Jesus would have been equally good flowing in his veins—that it was not necessary to shed his blood, but we know that a religion which has not the scarlet of sacrificial love is not a religion which can be trusted to the limit."

What Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, actually writes on page 25 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is: "The material blood of Jesus was no more efficacious to cleanse from sin when it was shed upon 'the accursed tree,' than when it was flowing in his veins as he went daily about his Father's business. His true flesh and blood were his Life; and they truly eat his flesh and drink his blood, who partake of that divine Life."

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