It
sometimes happens that the Christian Science student works long and faithfully on a problem without seeming to gain any light, but rather with a depressing sense of growing strain, burden, and responsibility; until at length discouragement argues that he is faced with a task impossible of accomplishment, and that his honest, faithful work has been of no avail.
At
the close of the second chapter of his epistle to the Ephesians Paul uses these words: "In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
When
one turns to Christian Science and receives a healing through the work of a loving practitioner, he is apt, in the first flush of joy and gratitude, to have visions of the time when he too can help others as he has been helped; and he may ponder on what it means to be a practitioner; he may even think of ways and means of establishing a practice.
Fred Yould, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,
The reference made to Christian Science by a reverend doctor in your recent issue evidenced a complete lack of knowledge of the religion which he inferred is unchristian, ignores the cross, and teaches that Jesus did not suffer.
Edgar G. Gyger, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
In your recent issue a reverend doctor is quoted as having said that "Christian Science is a real cure for imaginary ills, and an imaginary cure for real ills.
Charles M. Shaw, Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,
I am reluctant to return to the subject of Mark Twain's attitude towards Christian Science, but "A Christian Believer's" remarks in his last letter make it necessary.
Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,
A certain medical doctor writing for the Journal and other newspapers is disposed at times to ridicule or condemn Christian Science and Christian Scientists.
One
who does not know something about the real nature of man might be disinclined to believe that Jesus could have been joyful; yet the Master said, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.
