Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
A rabbi writing in a recent issue of Emanu-El describes Christian Scientists as "fanatic zealots," because they elect to depend upon God without the aid of material means to recover and preserve health.
Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
In your recent issue you partially reported a sermon of a visiting evangelist in which reference was made to Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, which conveys the erroneous impression that Christian Science healing is faith cure, or is based on suggestion and psychology; hence I am respectfully requesting space for correction.
Richard H. Smith, Committee on Publication for the State of Montana,
The mistake of characterizing Christian Science as a cult and its system of healing as merely a philosophy, as was recently done by a minister through an advertisement in your paper, has almost entirely ceased.
The
home is a foundation stone of our nation, a bulwark of our civilization; and it should become a sanctuary in which are born the ideals that raise men above the material into the spiritual.
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.
