Thomas C. Hollingshead, Committee on Publication for the State of Idaho,
Two letters which recently appeared in your columns have just come to my attention, and that your readers may not receive a wrong impression of what Christian Science teaches, I ask the privilege of your columns.
When,
for the first time, we leave the shelter of a quiet home and stand on the threshold of the great and busy world, is it not an occasion for rejoicing rather than for trepidation and mistrust?
A student
of Christian Science once found herself in a quagmire of doubt, fear, impatience, and indecision because a seemingly painful and annoying condition, which she had worked long and earnestly to overcome, showed no signs of healing or abatement.
So have we gratefully sung of that transcendent demonstration of God's immortal law of life and love known to the world through the appearing of the Messiah.
A Plot,
a crucifixion, darkness; then, as we read in the Gospels, a rending of the veil of the temple from top to bottom, a breaking of rocks, an earthquake—and afterwards the resurrection of the best man who ever lived, Christ Jesus! Such were the marvelous phenomena attendant upon the greatest power over crime ever demonstrated.
A speaker in your city, discussing Christian healing, observed that people are leaving the Protestant churches because these are leaving out the healing element.
Under the heading "Thirty Years Ago" an article was recently republished in the Post in which the writer said, "Fasting is not a huge joke, or an advertising scheme, or a vagary of some such phantasmic system as Christian Science.