Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
Christian Scientists agree with our surgeon-critic's statement in your issue of recent date, that "wishing to be well rarely corrects a real physical defect," for human will-power is as foreign to Christian Science practice as is materia medica.
Theodore Burkhart, Committee on Publication for the State of Oregon,
Christian Scientists do not initiate or invite controversy, nor have we any quarrel with others who hold different opinions, but when misleading or incorrect statements are made about Christian Science or Mrs.
To
be "a doorkeeper in the house of my God" implies the activity of vigilance in individual consciousness, securing orderly entrance for constructive thoughts.
Much
is being written and said at present by doctors of medicine on the subject of preventive medicine, which is a recently developed branch of their activities supposedly designed to prevent, or it may be to postpone, illness.