Charles W. Hale, Committee on Publication for the State of Indiana,
The article, "Little Sketched of Clay County Historical Events," published in your recent issue, though kindly of intent, carries some mistaken and confusing statements pertaining to the Christian Science church and its teachings.
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Massachusetts,
Since you have seen fit to publish the opinion of a minister that Christian Science is a humbug, I request that you also publish a few of many different opinions from other speakers who are at least equally fair-minded and well-informed.
The
story of the children of Israel is a source of inspiration to Christian Scientists, for it depicts so clearly many of the struggles through which they, too, are passing.
On
page 24 of "Miscellaneous Writings" our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us of her "immediate recovery from an injury caused by an accident, and pronounced fatal by the physicians.
There
is a peace that comes to the human heart as tenderly and as graciously as the dew comes to the earth in the quiet of the evening, or as the breeze passes over a garden on a summer day.
Charles E. Heitman, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
Please permit me to correct certain flagrant misrepresentations of the Christian Science religion contained in an article appearing in your recent issue under the caption, "Astray Through Ignorance.
Miss V. M. Blanche Stievenard, Committee on Publication for Hertfordshire, England,
In a recent issue of the Citizen, under no title and with no name signed, appears a list of what apparently purports to be quotations from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, arranged in apposition to quotations from the Bible.