Article May 3, 1941 Issue

In a recent issue you publish a report of a helpful sermon

R. Ashley Vines, Committee on Publication for Victoria, Australia,—Mildura

Sunraysia Daily

In a recent issue you publish a report of a helpful sermon. However, the report states that "he [the speaker] did not know just how the Christian Scientist proposed to deal with the problem" of war.

Evidently the reverend gentleman has not read the editorial letter on this subject addressed to readers of The Christian Science Monitor, which appeared in that newspaper on May 16, 1940, and which has been reprinted with appreciation in the daily press. This editorial letter quotes the words of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, as they appear in her Message to The Mother Church for 1900 (p. 10): "Certain elements in human nature would undermine the civic, social, and religious rights and laws of nations and peoples, striking at liberty, human rights, and self-government. . . . History shows that error repeats itself until it is exterminated. Surely the wisdom of our forefathers is not added but subtracted from whatever sways the sceptre of self and pelf over individuals, weak provinces, or peoples. Here our hope anchors in God who reigns. . . ."

A book of almost four hundred pages, entitled "Christian Science War Time Activities," briefly records the work carried out by Christian Scientists during the Great War, 1914—1918, under plans drawn up by The Christian Science Board of Directors. These activities involved the orderly and wise allocation of a large War Relief Fund for expenditure on camp welfare work and the distribution of comforts, food, garments, and cash among people in all parts of Europe. In addition, Christian Science chaplains were appointed in the various branches of the service, wherever the number of Christian Scientists warranted such appointments.

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