Joseph G. Alden, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,
May I have a little space in your "Letter Box" to correct a misconception of Christian Science given a few days ago in this same department by a contributor?
When
we are asked to render some service to another, perhaps to go on an errand or to perform some little duty in the household, how frequently there seems to arise a disinclination to do the thing immediately! Something seems to whisper that half an hour or an hour hence, or perhaps even tomorrow, would do just as well, and that it would be much more easily done if we could put it off a little while.
Jesus'
words, "Follow me," spoken to Simon Peter and Andrew, and his similar call to James and John, strengthened their awakening recognition of the Christ, Truth, which he reflected; and they immediately gave up their business as fishermen and followed him.
In
Luke's record of the birth of Jesus we find the well-known message to humanity, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
The
recurring Christmas season presents a blessed occasion wherein one not only may celebrate the coming to earth of Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, but also may take the measure of his own receptiveness and devotion to Christ, Truth, and of the extent to which he is demonstrating the truth.
In
his illuminating letter of counsel and admonition to the Galatians, after vividly detailing the undesirable, deceptive, and destructive works of the flesh, St.
The
beloved Leader of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy, on Christmas Day, 1909, wrote to her household that she wished them "a happy Christmas, a feast of Soul and a famine of sense".
with contributions from John Bull, George W. Parker, E. N. Thacker, Idah McGione Gibson, Raymon M. Kistler, Alfred Grant Walton, George S. Lackland, Percy T. Edrop
Joseph Coffer, Committee on Publication for the State of Oklahoma,
In a recent issue of the Creek-County-Register there appeared an advertisement for a spiritual medium and Spiritual Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and in connection a lengthy report heralding the ability of the medium, not as a spiritualist, but as a Christian Scientist.
