William Birtles, Committee on Publication for Warwickshire, England,
In your issue last week you gave a report of the meetings in Coventry of the Baptist Union Council, in which appears a report of a sermon by a clergyman in which he made reference to Christian Science and to its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy.
Many
Christian Scientists can testify to the freedom and strength which have come to them as a result of scientifically opposing the belief of old age.
What
a tender, loving thing it is for an individual to stretch forth his hand to help his fellow man! At this time, when many are fearful because of financial conditions and many in want because of unemployment, a hand outstretched to help is indeed a blessing.
In
the twenty-first chapter of Genesis it is related that Hagar, when driven from home, wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba until her supply of water was spent, and then, in utter despair, cast her son Ishmael under a shrub, "and sat her down over against him a good way off,.
When,
in his epistle to the Galatians, Paul enumerated the fruits of the Spirit, he did not fail to include gentleness, placing them in the following order: "Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
Joseph G. Alden, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,
The pastor of a local church who devoted his sermon period last Sunday to a discussion of Christian Science fell into the same error many other opponents of Christian Science have fallen into when he attempted to explain something he did not understand.
