Part of a writer's remarks in your issue of January 12 appears to say or imply that religion and faith will not cure you "if there is anything really the matter with you.
According to a report which appeared in your paper some time ago, in a lecture on "Conscious or unconscious state in death," a statement about Christian Science was put forth which was wholly incorrect.
The Rand Daily Mail reports that the president of the Wesleyan Conference at Queenstown has stated that "Christian Science eliminates the lordship of Jesus and turns religion into a supreme effort to capture health.
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Christian Science is entirely logical no thoughtful student can deny; but however much we may recognize and appreciate the logic of Christian Science, we learn, when confronted with some serious human problem, that something more than mere logic is required to effect a solution.
It
has been the writer's happy privilege to be engaged in Christian Science Reading Room work for considerable periods, in connection with two branch churches in widely separated areas.
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may have been hard for Elijah to say to the widow who was gathering sticks for a fire to prepare what, in that time of sore famine, she believed to be her household's last scanty ration of meal, "Make me thereof a little cake first.
