George C. Palmer. Committee on Publication for the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada,
We have just been handed a copy of a recent issue of your paper, and notice a letter in which the writer, in referring to another correspondent, says: "He reminds me of Mrs.
Christian Science
teaches that God is the only Life, eternal, infinite, immutable; that man is inseparable from this Life; and that as the pure reflection of the eternal One, man is without mortal limitation or time-sense, without beginning or end.
"The
poet's line, 'Order is heaven's first law,' is so eternally true, so axiomatic, that it has become a truism; and its wisdom is as obvious in religion and scholarship as in astronomy or mathematics.
If
we could always correctly read the hearts of men and women, pierce through the veil of belief and know what they were most longing for, most hoping for, we might be surprised to discover how often the dominant desire would be found in the yearning wish for harmonious unity with some other individual or group.
Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
A recent contributor to your columns avers that Christian Science is a form of demonology; but even a superficial acquaintance with its literature reveals the absurdity of such an assertion, for hypnotism, necromancy, mesmerism, and all the baneful forms of mental control and manipulation, are foreign to Christian Science practice, the carnal mind—from which comes all evil—being excluded as a factor in its purely spiritual theology and therapeutics.
