W. Truman Green, Committee on Publication for the State of Florida,
There recently appeared in your paper a news item covering the laymen's assembly of the Methodist Church, South, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in which item a bishop was quoted as saying: "Those who practice healing by faith are in reality fractional atheists.
To
students of Christian Science there is comfort, encouragement, and instruction in the story of Peter's imprisonment and deliverance, as told in the twelfth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles.
At
the beginning of that marvelous discourse called the Sermon on the Mount, as recorded by Matthew, are the pure declarations of the blessings which follow certain specified conditions of right thinking and living—the Beatitudes.
In
II Kings there is related the story of a widow who went to the prophet Elisha saying that her husband was dead, and that a creditor had come to take her two sons to be bondmen.
Francis Lyster Jandron, Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,
In a recent issue you reported that an evangelist in a public address at Harbor Springs made "a comparison of the Protestant Bible and the Christian Science Bible.
Mrs. Agnata F. Butler, Committee on Publication for Cambridgeshire, England,
A criticism of two theological books in your last issue is of particular interest to students of Christian Science, for the writer makes it clear that the point of divergence which separates his view of Christianity from the teaching of Christian Science is precisely the point which prevents him from accepting the full historicity of the gospel narratives.