Article January 11, 1941 Issue

The New York Herald-Tribune carried a dispatch from...

B. Palmer Lewis, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,—New York

Herald-Tribune

The New York Herald-Tribune carried a dispatch from your Washington Bureau quoting a certain senator in regard to a certain presidential candidate. Among the senator's remarks he is quoted as saying, "I think he is a sort of Christian Science candidate. He thinks he is running, but he is not."

The implication that imagination is a factor in Christian Science treatment is not in accordance with fact. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 460): "Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. It is therefore to be dealt with through right apprehension of the truth of being."

In the senator's home state there are a large number of Christian Science churches and societies, whose members are endeavoring to be good neighbors and honest, industrious citizens. They obey the laws of the land and are worshiping God according to their own conscience.

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