Orwell Bradley Towne, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
In your issue of July 10 appears a report of an address by a doctor, delivered before the American Neurological Association in Atlantic City, which gives a wrong impression of Christian Science.
To
the student of Christian Science surely nothing brings more joy than the changes toward good that appear in his home life, among those dear ones to whom he is closely bound.
Among
the many helpful testimonies given by those who have received blessings in Christian Science are those which tell of the happy solution of the problem of supply.
Perhaps
nothing impresses the newcomer just within the gates of Christian Science so quickly and so strongly as the great importance which Christian Scientists attach to gratitude and thanks, and to giving; that is, to the expression of these qualities.
Throughout
the history of the Jewish people and that of the Christian era, the singing of psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, the making of melody in the heart to the Lord, has always been an essential element of worship.
Each
Thanksgiving Proclamation by the President of the United States of America bears witness to the fact that pioneers who are thanksgivers produce standards for posterity.
Notwithstanding
that our forefathers endured the hardships and privations of a primitive life, surrounded by dangers and solaced only with meager comforts, they nevertheless bequeathed to us a custom of devoting one day of every year to universal thanksgiving to Almighty God for the blessing of life itself and the means to sustain it, for the sanctuary of home and the joys that pervade it, and for the mercies of His protection from accident, sickness, or death.
J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
A report in the March 6 issue of your paper gave the information that a doctor, in a recent address at the Iowa State College in Ames, referred to Christian Science as being founded "on the principle of cure by power of suggestion.
