In
olden Biblical times it was frequently the custom for the people to express their praise and thanks to God through music, the hosts desirous of expressing their individual joy gathering together in one divine purpose with love and humility in their hearts.
Aaron E. Brandt, Committee on Publication for the State of Pennsylvania,
Evidently the writer in a recent issue reffered to Christian Scientists when he stated that the hopes entertained by medical science of fighting a certain disease successfully in a new way, "will shock and disturb those who believe that there is no such thing as disease, and that all you need to do is to deny its reality.
Miss Evelyn Webb, Committee on Publication for County Antrim, Ireland,
In no way need we doubt your correspondent's earnestness in wishing to save the people of Belfast from what he believes to be false teachings; but if he will cast his gaze over the history of the Christian churches, he will find that much religious zeal, and even bitter malice and hatred, have been expended by churches in the past against those who came out from them, and who were considered to be heterodox in their views.
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,
A comparison of the book on Christian Science by Sir William Barrett, with the review of it in the Transcript of August 25, shows that the reviewer has given prominence to the more unfavorable parts of the book.
The
continued study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, develops an inward, unshaken conviction of the supremacy of good in every situation, in the face of all arguments to the contrary.
The
aggressiveness and self-assertion of the so-called carnal mind, as encountered in one's everyday contact with humanity, are difficult to cope with because of like qualities in one's own thought—human will and its counterpart, consent to domination, often the expediency of otherwise fine natures.