In your issue of August 11 you report a sermon in which...

Richard O. Shimer, former Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,—Franklin

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In your issue of August 11 you report a sermon in which a clergyman comments on those who feel that religion has no right to make demands upon their time and are looking for an easy way. He refers to Christian Science as one of the religions which are thriving since they center on the individual. Inasmuch as this may leave a wrong impression in the thought of some of your readers in regard to Christian Science, I should appreciate space for a brief correction.

If Christian Science is easy, it is so because it is the way the Master taught when he said, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light." But there is a cross we must take up, and a sacrifice of materiality is required as we become conscious of spiritual ideas. It is also an individual work. One cannot do it for another. Each one must work out his own salvation.

However, Christian Science is today manifested not only in the lives of individual men and women, but also in an impressive collective religious activity. There is The Mother Church, in Boston, Massachusetts; its branch churches and societies in many lands; The Christian Science Publishing Society, and a Board of Lectureship whose members last year carried the healing truth to audiences totaling almost three million persons.

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