Having read with interest the different views expressed in your paper by some of Atlanta's good ministers on the "power of prayer" in the present hope for peace, I am led to contribute some remarks on the efficacy of prayer from the Christian Scientist's point of view.
The feature of your paper entitled "Truth's Saturday Sermon," with its opportunity for presenting the various views of religious truth, seems to be a pulpit from which each speaker may preach the gospel in which he believes.
It is only necessary to read the daily papers, all over the world, in order to discover that the war is uprooting many of those beliefs which the prophet Isaiah might have termed the idols of the human race.
There is no publication in the country whose praise of the Tribune's new guarantee we value more highly than that of The Christian Science Monitor, from which we quote an editorial [see Monitor, Nov.
While
journeying one time, I was drawn irresistibly to the hills that skirted the quaint old city where I was staying, because of the wonderful brilliancy of the trees, clad in their autumn garments and radiant in the glorious sunshine of the unusually beautiful days of Indian summer.
Resistance
to Truth—that stumbling-block in mortal existence which works subtly or openly in seeming determination to prevent the release of mortals from their self-imposed enslavement to habits which are opposed to God—is the mainspring of error which operates to turn the neophyte or the disciple from the straight and narrow path of righteousness and lead him into the by-paths of material sense.
