Aided by its alert Assistants in the various communities of Northern California, this office has vigilantly scanned publications throughout its jurisdiction and is privileged to report that attacks upon our religion have been practically nonexistent.
B. Tatham Woodhead, Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,
In your issue of October 23 you report a bishop as saying, with reference to Christian Science, "To neglect what God has given us and then to pray to Him to help us in our sickness is blasphemy.
Mrs. Dorothy Hoskyn, Committee on Publication for the South Island of New Zealand,
In answer to your correspondent, I would say that all his questions, with one exception, are aswered clearly and completely in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scritprues" by Mary Baker Eddy, when the sentences he quotes are read with their proper context.
Prior
to the discovery of Christian Science, in the year 1866, most mortals believed that sickness and disease were inevitable, and in some cases God-sent.
WHEN
one seeker for a more satisfying religious teaching attended a Christian Science service for the first time, he was startled by the revolutionary declaration of "the scientific statement of being," which begins, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter".
