Israel Pickens, Committee on Publication for the State of Alabama,
Please allow me space in your paper in which to make correction of an erroneous statement in regard to Christian Science healing which is reported in your recent issue to have been made by a critic.
A Magazine
once contained a very interesting article in regard to the reading of the Bible, in which the author brought out clearly the difference in the attitude manifested by some of the early prophets and Jesus, when called by God to be messengers of Truth.
Millions
of Bible students have become familiar with the words of our Master, "I am the way, the truth, and the life," words which have brought great joy and approval.
In
the Gospel of Mark it is stated that once when Jesus beheld a certain poor widow cast two mites into the treasury of the temple, "he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: for all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
In submitting this, the third annual report, the Christian Science Committee on Publication for Ontario is pleased to announce a very marked increase in the correct understanding of Christian Science by the general public throughout the province.
Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,
As reported in your recent issue, a clergyman compared Christian Scientists with those adrift in the "seas of unholy untruth," and grouped our religion with theosophy, spiritualism, Bahaism, and agnosticism.
J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
To make clear to your readers that the play, "For You and Me," reviewed in your recent issue, was not written or presented under the direction of, or sponsored by, the Christian Science movement, this brief statement is submitted.
