A news item appearing in your issue of January 3, under a London date line, stated in effect that a group of clergymen and medical men, after hearing evidence on behalf of Christian Science and other modes of healing, had decided that the clergy could not heal the sick.
Christian Science neither overlooks nor neglects the prime importance of salvation of the individual, but on the contrary, in both teaching and practice, strongly emphasizes the admonition of Jesus, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness.
Christian Scientists are fond of quoting Scripture because the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, has enabled them to understand the Bible better than they ever did before.
Every
sincere student who seeks an understanding of the truth in Christian Science learns early in his study of the Bible and of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, that he must attain to that spiritual understanding of prayer which fulfills only the divine will.
