REPLYING WITH LOVE

The Sentinel is a great force in tearing down walls of intolerance and hate between different countries, religions, and lifestyles. By running articles from all corners of the globe, by people of differing faiths, ages, and walks of life, you're doing a great service to all mankind.

Sometimes I find myself in a group of people, often around campfires, where bashing Christianity is the order of the day. Mary Baker Eddy may have been thinking about divisiveness within the Christian church when she made the statement you quoted in the April 9 issue on humility, "To my sense the Sermon on the Mount, read each Sunday without comment and obeyed throughout the week, would be enough for Christian practice" (Message to The Mother Church for 1901, p. 11). Rather than argue with anyone about Christianity, I just like to point out how simple it is, by taking them to Jesus' words from Matthew 22: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind"; and "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

Brought up attending a Christian Science Sunday School, I learned to view our fellow man and all of God's creation with love. And the Sentinel has helped me keep that pure vision.

MURRAY MUIR
NEW LISKEARD, ONTARIO, CANADA

EYE-CATCHING DISPLAY

Thank you for the Sentinel of April 16, specifically focused on Australia and climate change ["Living waters for dry lands"]. The double-page photograph of Western Australia and Beverly Goldsmith's article titled "Climate change" have been used to make an attractive display in cabinet street-side display cabinet outside our church.

With their attractive and colorful layouts and topical articles highlighting spiritual truths, the Sentinels are a wonderful resource for these displays. We are most grateful for all the love and thought that go into producing them.

DISPLAY COMMITTEE
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

CONTINUED BLESSINGS

Thank you to the writers of the April 16 issue. I just finished reading Thomas Black's article, "Christian majesty and the climate," and I had to write to you with my gratitude. He shows so clearly how the carnal mind is the cause of all disturbance in individual and collective consciousness—that through God-governed thinking and acting, we can and do govern our experience here on earth. Articles like these force me to grow.

I am so grateful that Mary Baker Eddy has made Christian Science available to the world through her consecrated study of the Bible and the work of Jesus. These publications continue to bless. Now, time to pray!

SUMMER WRIGHT
CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, US

PERFECT TIMING

The timing for the April 16 issue couldn't have been more perfect. Here in Southern California, we've had an unusually dry winter. This morning I felt the need to pray about the situation, and my thought turned to Science and Health, where Mrs. Eddy wrote: "The seasons will come and go with changes of time and tide, cold and heat, latitude and longitude. The agriculturist will find that thesechanges cannot affect his crops" (p. 125). I expanded this idea to include the fact that a lack of rain can't have an adverse effect on any of God's ideas—people, animals, and crops alike.

PAM THORNDIKE
HUNTINGTON BEACH CALIFORNIA, US

FAVORITE COVER

The Sentinel has had many wonderful covers in its history. But I think the one on the April 30 cover ["Safe in an unsafe world"] is my favorite one to date. It is the perfect cover in so many ways and on so many levels, with the fearless toddler out for an adventure—perhaps following her parent's call, or as our daughter often did, launching into the unknown with an expectation of good, knowing without a doubt that her mom or dad was close behind to share, explain, point out some new and exciting wonder of the world.

What a great attitude to take on for ourselves as we head out into the world, safe in our Father-Mother's ever-present, vigilant, and loving care.

KIM DEWINOT
SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA, US

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