Kellogg Patton, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,
I have read with interest and profit in a recent issue of your paper an article by a doctor relative to toxin-antitoxin, the Schick test in particular, and the question of its introduction into the public schools of Ashland.
Theodore Burkhart, Committee on Publication for the State of Oregon,
Among the fragmentary sayings of "Allozone" under the headline "Man and His Gods," in your recent issue, touching upon man's disposition to worship something or somebody, I find this remark: "We worship Aimee and Mrs.
Miss Madge Bell, Committee on Publication for North Island, New Zealand,
The pronouncement on "Divine Healing" by the Methodist Church of Australia, as given in the Herald, calls for some corrections, and I shall be glad if you will grant space for this letter.
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
In your recent issue, when discussing political candidates, a gentleman referred to our religion in a way that was misleading, and spoke of those who give "some hocus pocus signs and wave their outspread fingers before our eyes," from which the erroneous inference might be drawn that Christian Science misrepresents facts and tries to cover the wrongdoing by hypnotic methods.
In
the first chapter of Genesis we learn that God, having created man in His image and likeness, looked, not upon a portion of His creation, but upon the whole of it, and pronounced it "very good.
Until
one becomes interested in the teachings of Christian Science, it is too often true that God seems to be very distant, though, as Paul says, "he be not far from every one of us: for in him we live, and move, and have our being.
That
obedience is not a question of personal choice but an eternal law of Spirit, ever operative in consciousness, is clearly discernible through a study of the By-laws of The Mother Church.