Van Buren Perry, Committee on Publication for the State of South Dakota,
Doubtless nothing unfriendly or inaccurate was intended by the lady who, in referring to a Swami lecture, said in a recent issue: "Not a new thing did he tell us that night.
Miss Madge Bell, Committee on Publication for North Island, New Zealand,
I have no desire to enter into a controversy with your correspondent who signs his letters "Common Sense," nor would I question the amount of reading he has done on certain subjects.
W. Clyde Price, Committee on Publication for the State of Utah,
My attention was recently called to a letter that appeared in your columns a short time ago wherein one writing of his missionary work in California mentioned Christian Science people as "not being willing to read our literature," and also said that "they are self-opinionated and spiritualize everything.
A Statesman
has said, "When we love one another as brothers, and treat each other reciprocally as such, and each one seeking his own good in the good of all shall identify his life with the life of all; and shall be ready to sacrifice himself for the members of the common family; then, the ills which seem to weigh so heavily upon the world will vanish, as the mist before the rising of the sun.
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
In your recent issue, a contributor humorously discussed the flies which bothered him, and referred to Christian Science when he said, "I'd like to see some of that particular religious proclivity practiced and get results on these flies with that method.
On
page 330 of "Miscellaneous Writings" by Mary Baker Eddy we find the following: "The alders bend over the streams to shake out their tresses in the water-mirrors; let mortals bow before the creator, and, looking through Love's transparency, behold man in God's own image and likeness, arranging in the beauty of holiness each budding thought.
There
is an arresting marginal heading, "Immortal memory," on page 407 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
Along
the banks of the beautiful Dix River, in Kentucky, a feat of mechanical engineering has been going on which has given at least one student of Christian Science much food for thought.