Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,
From what was reported in a recent issue, it would appear that a medical doctor, recently commenting on why people "fall for fads and quackeries in medicine," before an audience in Emil Hirsch center, not only failed to confine his remarks to the subject of medicine, with which it is assumed he is familiar, but made several disrespectful statements about Christian Science.
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,
A columnist in the Jewish Advocate writes: "I am in receipt of the following letter from Judge Clifford Smith, in reply to the question put recently to the Christian Science church.
WHEN
an engineer graduates from college, he looks forward with interest and expectation to the day when he will have problems to which he can apply the knowledge he has gained.
THE
quality of godliness manifests itself in a far-reaching beneficence, attained through daily and constant application of the fundamental truths of right thinking and living.
GENERALLY
speaking, how careless, inaccurate, and above all how illogical, was our thinking before we commenced the study of Christian Science; how feeble our concept of Truth or reality! Also, how little we realized the importance of correct thinking; and how blindly we accepted what the carnal mind or physical sense suggested to us—and all because of their misleading and deceptive nature! The reason for this was—what?
