John G. Sumner, Committee on Publication for County Antrim, Ireland,
The recently published sermons, "Modern Healing Miracles," have doubtless been read with more than ordinary interest by your numerous readers, and in the interests of fairness and accuracy, I should be grateful if you would permit me to make a brief comment on one or two points of some importance.
Orwell Bradley Towne, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
In the "Second Nights" column on December 28 the reality of matter is brought into question, and it is implied that Christian Scientists are the only ones who are taught that matter is not real.
WHEN
a Church of Christ, Scientist, is taking steps to build a suitable structure in which to worship God, the members naturally turn for inspiration and guidance to the Scriptures and to the writings of their beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.
ON
page 20 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy makes this highly important statement: "Jesus bore our infirmities; he knew the error of mortal belief, and 'with his stripes [the rejection of error] we are healed.
What
could bring more blessedness than the consciousness of God's tender, loving care for all His children; and how often we see this quality of tenderness expressed throughout the Scriptures! In the thirty-third chapter of Genesis we read of the meeting of Esau and Jacob after years of separation brought about by enmity.
Between
the personal attribute called love and the Love which the beloved disciple assures us is God, there is a gulf as impassable as that which yawned between Dives and Lazarus.
Francis Lyster Jandron, Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,
In an account of a Rotary Club meeting which appeared in a recent issue of the Midland Republican, a physican described Christian Science as "an exponent of wills.
[From the Report of the Committee on Christian Science Activities at Folsom State Prison, Represa, California, and Preston School of Industry, lone, California]
