The
interesting narrative of Jacob's wrestle with a material sense of life, as related in the book of Genesis, has furnished inspiration and encouragement to a host of Christian warriors.
Cyril R. Hewson, Committee on Publication for Derbyshire, England,
In the course of an address on "Spiritualism," as reported in your columns, a clergyman makes an attack on Christian Science, and I should be glad to be allowed space to reply.
Arthur Brearley, Committee on Publication for Hongkong and Canton, China,
In "Fundist's" epistle in your yesterday's issue occurs a criticism of my assertion in a previous letter that God is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, and, therefore, that there can be no place or space for evil.
It is with a sense of gratitude that I am able to report a continued friendly attitude toward Christian Science and our Leader on the part of newspaper editors in Colorado.
Although
the New Testament does not always furnish a clear and dependable order of events, it furnishes ample reason for concluding that the first statement made by Christ Jesus in his public ministry was this one: "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand".
The Revised Recommendations of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, which will be sent soon to all branch churches, call attention to the fact that lectures on Christian Science are given for all.
To insure that complete lecture notices be printed in the Sentinel, detailed information should reach the Editorial Department regarding lectures in the United States and Canada, at least four weeks before the date of the lecture; in Great Britain and Ireland, at least five weeks before; in other European countries, at least eight weeks before.
After hearing and reading many helpful testimonies in our churches and periodicals I am impelled to add a few words of my own experience during the years that I have known and enjoyed the teachings of Christian Science.
One morning early in October, 1918, I went about my duties in an office with an undercurrent of fear in my thought, because the papers said that influenza had broken out in an eastern embarkation camp.
When I was told of Christian Science about nine years ago, I asked if it could possibly heal a number of warts which had been on my hand for several years.