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In your issue of June 12, in your column "Among the...

Frederick H. Astley-Woodward, Committee on Publication for Devonshire, England,—Torquay

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In your issue of June 12, in your column "Among the New Books," your correspondent states, "Christian Scientists may be pained to discover what great importance is attached to diet and hygiene." May I point out that Christian Scientists are too busy minding their Father's business to be pained or otherwise about diet, hygiene, etc., and I should like space to set forth what the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science says on this subject.

On page 447 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the author states: "The heavenly law is broken by trespassing upon man's individual right of self-government. We have no authority in Christian Science and no moral right to attempt to influence the thoughts of others, except it be to benefit them." Again, on page 383, she emphasizes the fact that a clean body is the expression of a clean mind; and regarding the care of the body, she declares that "the pure and exalting influence of the divine Mind on the body is requisite," followed by this significant statement: "The Christian Scientist takes the best care of his body when he leaves it most out of his thought, and, like the Apostle Paul, is 'willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.' "

Christ Jesus said: "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?"

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