William A. Gilchrist, Committee on Publication for the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada
In your recent issue, a doctor of Toronto Presbytery, at a meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Regina, is reported as having said that "Presbyterians do not recognize the Christian Scientists as a church of Jesus Christ, and communicants would have to repudiate their Christian fellowship in order to join that body.
I would point out to your correspondent that his inability to understand that the teachings of Christian Science are preeminently Christian, doubtless arises from his lack of understanding of them.
Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California
Your comments in a recent issue of the Cymbal on the opposition which developed to certain features of a legislative bill, providing for the formation of health and sanitary districts, include several statements which indicate that you completely misapprehend the attitude of Christian Scientists.
In
endeavoring to convey to the Corinthians some comprehension of the wonderful blessings that follow a turning to God, Paul said, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
On
a Sunday morning, as one sat in the auditorium of a Christian Science church awaiting the time for the service, a shaft of sunlight fell across the stillness and rested upon the mute pipes of the great organ.
Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylavania,
Your recent issue carries a reprint from a periodical which undertakes to justify an attitude of intolerance toward Christian Scientists and others therein named who differ from its religious views.
Charles H. Parker, Committee on Publication for Cheshire, England,
At the opening ceremony of the Palestine in Macclesfield Exhibition the rural dean made the following arresting remark: "We are constantly losing people who become Christian Scientists, and I suppose the reason is really that people feel that they have no confidence in the power of God, and what they are saying is, 'We want a God of power.