In rendering its report of the progress of Christian Science work in the New York state prisons for the year 1928, the Prison Committee desires to thank the Christian Science churches and societies of the state and individual Christian Scientists for the constant support and cooperation which it is receiving from them.
Thomas C. Hollingshead, Committee on Publication for the State of Idaho,
The remarks of the author of "To-day" on the subject of "faith cure" in a recent issue of your paper clearly show that he had in mind faith in human power to heal disease; and entirely aside from the fact that Christian Science was not mentioned and cannot be classed among the systems this writer had in mind since it relies wholly and completely on faith in God and in His ability and willingness to heal "all thy diseases," is the fact that many of your readers, not understanding this, may be misled into believing that the critic's remarks could apply to Christian Science.
Conrad Bernhard, Jr., Committee on Publication for the State of Maryland,
In a biographical sketch of a doctor, which appeared in a recent issue of the Afro-American, it was stated that in his practice he included faith-healing, Christian Science, spiritualism, and the ministration of drugs.
Ralph B. Textor, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,
The contributor of "Crime News," in your "Mail Bag" column, evidently referred to Christian Science when he spoke of "the cult which insists that disease does not exist, but is only thought of by those who will let themselves so think.
A student
of Christian Science was greatly benefited by pondering the spiritual meaning of the word "fasting," as used in the account of Jesus' healing of the child possessed of a "dumb spirit.
To
many persons the suggestion may have come that they once possessed an abundance of good, or attained a high degree of spiritual thinking and living, but that through some untoward circumstances these have been lost.
