Miss Kate E. Andreae, Committee on Publication for Sussex, England,
May I make it clear in reply to a letter appearing in your issue of recent date that no Christian Scientist ignores evil or "the palpable bad," as our critic calls it?
Frank A. Updegraff, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,
Those who read "A History of Medicine," published in your columns recently, will doubtless agree with the writer that it is the outgrowth of superstition; which reminds one reader of a saying of that physician whose medicine never failed to heal, Christ Jesus.
David A. Giel, Committee on Publication for Holland,
In your issue of recent date, containing a report of a public debating evening, there appears this passage: "Because we are standing in the broken life, we need Jesus.
Charles E. Heitman, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
While it is true that Christian Science denies the reality of pain and death as a part of God's spiritual creation, adherents of this religion do not, as our critic assumes, ignore these unhappy conditions as phases of human experience.
Men
in search of peace and happiness are prone to distress and discouragement when the immediate, satisfactory solution of every problem is not seen as soon as the problem arises.
Who
that has beheld the trust, the receptivity to good, the humility and spontaneous joy of a little child, has not realized in some degree the meaning of Jesus' words, "Except ye.
After
the birth of child Jesus, recorded in the second chapter of Luke's gospel, it was said of Mary, his mother, "But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.