Mrs. Mary Blanch Jones, Committee on Publication for Gloucestershire, England,
With reference to an assertion by a certain bishop, as reported in a recent issue of your paper, that "it was because the church had neglected the subject of spiritual healing that the heresy of Christian Science had flourished," may I state that the term "heresy" in this case is entirely misleading?
"I demand
satisfaction!" many an affronted gentleman of the olden time has declared; and he was thinking of a certain definite compensation, without which he did not intend to forget the affront.
In
spite of the fact that the very name of our religion, Christian Science, includes the word "Science," and that we often refer to ourselves as Scientists, it would sometimes seem that we forget what the name implies.
In
the second chapter of John's gospel we find a story in connection with the first visit of Jesus to Jerusalem after he had started his ministry, a story which is of considerable interest in the light of Christian Science.
Perhaps
no appeal coming from any single nation meets with a more sympathetic hearing from the rest of the world than the wish for security against all aggressors.
