Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of pennsylvania,
An item in your issue of December 1 headed "Ethical Speaker Hits Christian Science" shows, with other information at hand, that the speaker's address at the Academy of Music was based largely on misinformation obtained from sources unfriendly and unreliable.
Kellogg Patton, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,
Few if any outside of Christian Science have a correct conception of the teachings of Christian Science regarding the unreality of sin and the confession of sin.
William K. Primrose, Assistant to the District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland,
From a letter received from a doctor, it would appear that he has not read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
Oscar Graham Peeke, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,
Perhaps no more incongruous statement could be made than that voiced by a doctor when in his address in the Galleria Building on November 10 he declared, "As long as you feel you must serve God, you are simply prolonging human chaos.
Miss Edith L. Thomson, committee on Publication for Queensland, Australia,
A letter commenting on the report in the Queensland Times of a lecture on Christian Science, recently delivered in Ipswich by a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, has been brought to my notice.
To
go apart in prayer, to feel God's holy presence, to know one is protected and secure in His unchangeable love, to lose all pain and anxiety in His goodness and mercy, to sing with a relieved and grateful heart a song in praise of His majesty and might and goodness and love, and to awaken in His image and likeness—could there be anything more sublime or blissful?
A
first glance at the passage might tempt one to believe that when he said, "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself," Jesus intended us to deny ourselves joy and happiness in our present sense of existence.
Health
is gained in the measure that the body is brought into subjection to Truth; and in order to subdue the body, mortal mind must first be subordinated.
Of
all the qualities which are accounted desirable in everyday experience, steadfastness is recognized as having special relation to successful endeavor.
The
new student of Christian Science soon begins to find that many of his former habits of living are not in accord with the standard he is now accepting for himself.
The
characteristic feature of Sunday services in the Christian Science church is the reading of the impersonal Lesson-Sermon, or Bible Lesson, contained in the Christian Science Quarterly, which, through well-chosen selections of correlative passages from the Bible and the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is designed to bring out the teaching of Christian Science on a variety of subjects.