Frank C. Ayres, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
The alleged quotation from Mary Baker Eddy against which a clergyman argued in your issue of May 20, is not to be found in her published writings, and does not accord with her accustomed modes of speech.
Throughout
the world, in every Sunday service in Christian Science churches, the following words of John, the beloved disciple, are read: "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.
From
time immemorial mankind has been seeking to obtain rest or release from the hard bondage which has been imposed upon it by mortal belief; and this is not surprising when we take into consideration that deep in every human heart is the craving for spiritual peace.
The
rapid growth of the Christian Science movement has brought us to an era of church building, and every earnest student is striving to learn something of the true method of carrying forward this great work.
Many
of us have read the Bible story of the impotent man lying by the pool of Bethesda, "waiting for the moving of the water," and have, no doubt, felt a yearning sympathy for his disappointed cry, "While I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
"EVERY
individual character, like the individual John the Baptist, at some date must cry in the desert of earthly joy; and his voice be heard divinely and humanly.
IN
the fifteenth psalm David describes a citizen of Zion, and enumerates some of the spiritual characteristics essential to this highest condition of citizenship.
Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
The report of a sermon by a traveling evangelist, printed in your issue of March 20, contains the following statement: "Five thousand people in a Boston church deny that there is such a thing as sin!" Manifestly, this statement is intended to refer to Christian Scientists, and is calculated to misrepresent their religion.
