A beginner
in Christian Science, seeking healing, does not always readily accept the fact that his real need is to know more of God and of his own relation to God; to gain that spiritual understanding with which he can rectify what to him seems to be a purely material, financial, or physical difficulty.
Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
In a recent issue of the Press appeared a reference to what Christian Science teaches regarding death, that gives an inadequate statement concerning this question.
Mrs. Mary B. Jones, Committee on Publication for Gloucestershire, England,
In your issue of the 14th, the Bishop of Gloucester is reported to have spoken of Christian Science as "that curious and persistent phenomenon of the present time," and of "recourse only to prayer" for the purpose of healing as "one of the worst heresies.
How
unfailingly is a Christlike action recognized and remembered! After the lapse of many years one such incident stands out vividly in the memory of the writer.
Many
retiring Readers have been joyfully uplifted by the words of our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, found in an article entitled "Words for the Wise" in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany".
What
an example of unwavering faith and wise reliance on God, not on matter, David expressed in his answer to Saul, who had armed him to go out and challenge the Philistine: "I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them"!