Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,
Permit me to thank you for your editorial of recent date, which includes several helpful points, and which also very generously accords Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, full credit for making the healing of physical disease incidental to the teaching and living of Christian Science.
Could
there be a better definition of compassion than that given in the first two verses of the sixth chapter of Galatians: "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
If
the student of Christian Science fails to discern the true import of Jesus' words, "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven," he may become an unwise helper, having "a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
Ven Buren Perry, Committee on Publication for the State of North Dakota,
A contributor to the American of recent date objected because you treated the Christian Scientists with the same generosity shown other denominations, and printed extracts from one of their lectures.
Christian Science healings are effected without regard to the so-called material sciences, which constantly change their basis, mode of operation, and system of application.
