Frank Savage, Committee on Publication for Nottinghamshire, England,
You gave in a recent issue of the Guardian the address of the incoming president of the British Medical Association, who is to be congratulated on the generous manner in which he reviewed the question of religious healing.
There
is no more lovely episode in the story of Jesus' birth than that of the shepherds, to whom came the angel choir singing of the coming of the Christ.
The
Bible is replete with admonitions as to the error of borrowing trouble; but no passage decries this habit so emphatically, or enjoins in God more resolutely, than does the sixth chapter of Matthew, verses twenty-five to thirty-four.
In
the tenth chapter of the Gospel according to Mark it is related that as Jesus "went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimæus, the son of Timæus, sat by the highway side begging.
Christian Scientists
are in possession of great wealth in the realization that it is their privilege to know that the law of God, good, is constantly in operation, and always steadily in the one direction of uplifting them from the beliefs in evil and their unhappy results which mortals seem to think it is necessary for them to experience.
Every
student of Christian Science is familiar with the words on page 494 in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need.
To
the watching and listening thought of the shepherds came the song of the angels, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Miss Madge Bell, Committee on Publication for North Island, New Zealand,
When I set out to correct a misstatement about Christian Science I had no expectation of being drawn into a controversy with learned exponents of "Biblical scholarship," nor can I see that we are more likely to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion than are two men arguing about the relative positions of the sun and earth, when one bases his views on material sense testimony and the other on scientific spiritual facts.
