During the past year there appeared in the secular press in our state only three adverse criticisms, two of which—extracts from sermons by evangelists—were reported.
Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
Christian Scientists quite well understand and appreciate that disease appears to be very real and obdurate to the material, human sense of things; but as disease is recognized by them as error, and not as a part or factor of true being, and as every form of disease is being healed through this understanding, the correctness of their position is demonstrated.
Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The Mother Church, Boston, Massachusetts,
The members and officers of the church founded by Mary Baker Eddy, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, and its branches, have no desire for controversy with anybody, and we especially prefer to avoid controversy with the persons who were members of this church, but who have formed a different organization.
In
Webster's dictionary we find this definition of the word "tolerance": "A disposition to tolerate opinions, beliefs, practices, or conduct differing from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
In
the tenth chapter of the gospel of Mark, the story of the healing of blind Bartimæus stands as vividly etched as a picture hanging against a wall, surrounded and shut in by its own frame and setting.
