Richard E. Prince, Committee on Publication for the State of Virginia,
Kindly permit me to correct the following statement which appeared in an article on mental healing in your recent issue: "So many demonstrations of mind control over matter have been made in recent years that the science, fostered by Christian Scientists and psychiatrists, autosuggestion exponents, and even by broad-minded physicians of all schools, is growing apace.
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,
My attention has been drawn to a paragraph by a critic in the Eagle in which he alluded to Christian Science and said that "mind" will not heal an abscess or cure a cancer.
Cecil E. Benjamin, Committee on Publication for the Cape of Good Hope, Union of South Africa,
In the interesting review of a work, "Religiosity and Morbid Mental States," in your recent issue, it is stated that "the author is convinced that medical and spiritual treatment should go hand in hand, neither despising the other.
The
attainment of a higher spiritual understanding of God and His Christ is the object of all sincere students of Christian Science; and in this connection a question frequently asked by beginners in the study of this Science is stated on page 495 of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "How can I progress most rapidly in the understanding of Christian Science?
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is significant that Jesus had overcome death in his own experience before giving to the world that everlasting promise, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
