Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,
In behalf of all Christian Scientists, and especially of a respected group of your fellow-citizens who strive for the establishment of Christian fellowship among men, I wish to protest in your columns against misleading comment and misrepresentation reported on the editorial pages of your recent issue.
Miss V. M. Blanche Stievenard, Committee on Publication for Hertfordshire,
It is strange that any one, knowing whereof he speaks, should link Christian Science with Russellism, Spiritism, or Swedenborgianism, as does a critic in his letter published in a recent issue of your paper.
Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
The article contributed to the columns of a recent issue on the subject of "National Hospital Day" would be appropriate and unobjectionable were it not that it includes offensive, erroneous, unjust, and uncalled-for accusations against Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, against her teachings, and against Christian Scientists in general.
Harry L. Rhodes, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,
In the report of a lecture delivered in your city by a doctor, the statement was made that he "defined Christian Science as an imaginary cure for a real disease and a real cure for an imaginary disease.
The
meaning of each By-law in the Manual of The Mother Church unfolds as Christian Scientists endeavor to understand and practice the rules of the Manual.
Prophetic
vision not alone sees the spiritual idea as inherent in the divine Mind, but sees that idea as it journeys along the ages expressing itself in some form of blessedness for which humanity has been groping.
How
often have Christian Scientists allowed themselves to be puzzled and discouraged because, although they had done their metaphysical work as well as they knew how, the material problem seemed still to be unsolved.
It
was Jesus' clear concept of God as divine Love that enabled him to heal the sick, reform the sinner, and raise the dead, and that set the standard of progress for all time.
There
is a certain statement repeated by Mary Baker Eddy in her writings which, although constituting but a part of her revelation to this age, must have made, within two generations, an incalculable difference to mankind.