Ralph W. Still, committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
In your report of a revivalist's sermon, in your recent issue, appears a reference to Christian Science that calls for correction; as, contrary to our critic's assertion, Christian Science definitely repudiates the belief that man can "be his own savior," teaching that it is only through the atonement of Christ that mankind is saved.
Charles W. Hale, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
Although advertised as "Lectures on Christian Science," the statements pertaining to that religion made by a clergyman as reported in your recent issues were not authentic.
Miss Madge Bell, Committe on Publication for North Island, New Zealand,
In order that your readers may be rightly informed on the subject, will you grant me space for some corrections of statements appearing in an article in a recent issue of the Herald?
Many
portions of the Bible story of Jehoshaphat's deliverance from what seemed to be a powerful enemy are familiar to us, chief among them being God's message to him, "The battle is not yours, but God's.
In
a certain issue of The Christian Science Monitor was an editorial regarding a play entitled "The Enemy," in which a child is depicted beating his drum vigorously, and lamenting that he has not a sword with which to kill the enemy.
Not
everyone may have had the happy experience of the person who said, "Hospitality I have found as universal as the face of man;" but that individual is rare whose heart has not been warmed by the friendly welcome of some cheerful household or wayside inn, for the practice of providing for the stranger, the sick or distressed, as well as for the friend, is as old as the race itself.