Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
In a religious question-and-answer column in your issue of December 15, an alleged Christian Scientist purports to seek counsel regarding the application of his own religion from a minister who probably is not in sympathy with that religion—a rather unusual occurrence.
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page 367 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we read, "The tender word and Christian encouragement of an invalid, pitiful patience with his fears and the removal of them, are better than hecatombs of gushing theories, stereotyped borrowed speeches, and the doling of arguments, which are but so many parodies on legitimate Christian Science, aflame with divine Love.