Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
A writer in your recent issue, with a strong medical bias, seems disturbed because a considerable number of persons in the United States, and particularly in California, dare and are permitted to exercise their moral and legal prerogative in choosing the form of treatment they have found to be the most efficacious in recovering and preserving health.
Edgar G. Gyger, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
I shall be grateful to have you convey through your columns to your reading audience that the "announcer at WHAP" is not a Christian Scientist and that he and those associated with him are not authorized by the Christian Science church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
There
is something so inspiring in the familiar hymn, "Onward, Christian soldiers," that everyone who sings it feels the martial spirit of Love's bugle-call, and is invigorated and uplifted by its promise of victory.
Abroad
statement to the effect that we may know only good and believe only evil might provoke argument; but if it is said that we may know only what is true and believe only what is false, there would be no contradiction, as obviously we cannot know what is untrue.
How
frequently in our periodicals and Wednesday evening meetings, as well as in our conversations with others, we learn of many beautiful experiences of instantaneous healing through Christian Science! On the other hand, we may hear of an equally large number of instances where the healing has been slow, or seemingly withheld altogether, so that little or no progress has become apparent in the overcoming of sin or disease.
