Miss Ellen Graham, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,
When your correspondent said that the message of the kingdom of heaven was to be proclaimed "to 'the lost sheep of the house of Israel'—and to them only," he surely forgot the Master's final command: "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations.
Raymond N. Harley, Committee on Publication for Transvaal, South Africa,
In your issue of June 25, a certain clergyman again shows that he fails to understand the teachings of Christ Jesus in regard to the unreality of matter, sin, disease, and all evil.
Nils A. T. Lerche, Committee on Publication for Norway,
In an article in a Bergen paper, Christian Science, together with various other movements, is designated as a "religious substitute" and as an enemy of the church and of "real old-fashioned Christianity.
A False
belief which has had a very harmful effect upon mankind is that one may become the helpless victim of adverse circumstances in spite of one's earnest efforts to succeed in life.
In
the second paragraph of her definition of "Church," on page 583 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy states, "The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility;" and in the Church Manual she has provided for testimony meetings, at which may be given expressions of gratitude for benefits received from Christian Science.
The
strong light of Christian Science banishes the darkness of materialism and superficial theology, which had hidden from us the true and helpful meaning of Jesus' works and words.
The
phrases "going forward," "making progress," "keeping to the right path," "going higher," and similar sayings, are often used by students of Christian Science.
The
student of Christian Science discovers that there is awakened in his consciousness a recognition of the fact that the creative, governing, directing Principle of man and the universe is constructive, intelligent, beneficent, supreme, and entirely good.
