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.
Miss Fredrikke Lie, Committee on Publication for Norway,
In a recent issue of your paper is cited an article by the domprost, in which Christian Science is mentioned as an endeavor to substitute the old gospel with human wisdom's words.
Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,
In a recent issue of your Journal a correspondent, while truthfully explaining the necessity of giving heed to the mental state of his patient while treating cases of high blood pressure, conveyed a false impression of the methods employed in Christian Science practice when he mentioned our religion among healing agencies "in which the laying on of hands is the method of suggestion.
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,
An author who has acquired a reputation for accurate writing has defined a correct use of the word "science" as follows: "So soon as a field of inquiry yields knowledge susceptible of exact formulation, it is called science.