When
searching the Scriptures with a desire to gain a better understanding of the way in which the true nature of God and His Christ has been unfolded to humanity, we cannot fail to note how slow the world has been to accept and to assimilate the truth.
Under
God's instruction Moses ordered the appointing of cities, called "cities of refuge," where one who had committed an act which was punishable under Moses' law of "eye for eye, tooth for tooth," might flee and find protection until he had the opportunity of pleading his cause.
The
name "Christian Science" is so closely associated with the healing of disease that one is apt to center one's thought upon this activity, and lose the broader vision which Mrs.
The Mother Church
, known officially as The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, is founded upon Mary Baker Eddy's discovery of the spiritual nature of all true being, is erected upon the understanding and demonstration of this truth, and is maintained by the spiritual activity of all who unqualifiedly accept her as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and the Leader of the Christian Science movement.
Francis Lyster Jandron, Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,
In an article in your issue of November 14, reporting exercises held in an Episcopal church, you mistakenly associate the practices described with the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.
