When
the writer of the forty-sixth psalm recorded that profound injunction, "Be still, and know that I am God," he would appear to have stated tersely and definitely for all time the one thing needful, whereby mankind may be saved.
While
enjoying the many blessings which are afforded those who attend the Christian Science Sunday School, one of the pupils found the time approaching when her attendance must cease.
How
greatly would our load be lightened and our progress heavenward be accelerated if, when stumbling and groping more or less blindly along the rugged way, or hesitating which to take of the many paths opening up before us, some of which look more enticing than others, we constantly kept before us the comforting assurance of our Master recorded in the eleventh chapter of Luke, to the effect that the honest and diligent seeker will infallibly be rewarded with success.
Thomas A. Wyles, Committee on Publication for South Australia,
May I be permitted to correct certain misstatements regarding Christian Science made in the moderator's address as reported in a recent issue of the Advertiser.
Henry Dickinson, Committee on Publication for Durham, England,
I read with interest the article on faith healing by a clergyman in a recent issue of your paper, and especially his statement: "Jesus had perfect understanding of every law of God, his Father.
Kellogg Patton, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,
May I submit to your readers that Christian Science differs radically from the teachings mentioned [in a recent editorial, namely, pragmatism, intuitionism, spiritualism] upon this point, that its teaching is based upon the allness of God, Spirit; hence the nature of Christian Science is wholly spiritual, not material.
Paul Gassner, Committee on Publication for Germany,
In an article entitled "The Triumph of the Ancestral Spirit of the Indians" the religious teaching of Christian Science is also briefly mentioned, and the absolutely erroneous statement is made that "Christian Science is a ritual of exorcism; demons of sickness are denied; appropriate formulas are chanted over the refractory body.
