William Capell, Committee on Publication for the State of Connecticut,
Those who have gained a demonstrable understanding of Christian Science know that this Science is identical with the Christianity taught and practiced by Christ Jesus.
Douglas L. Edmonds, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
An item in a recent issue of Facts quotes the Jewish Sentinel as mentioning Christian Science in connection with the doctrines of psychoanalysis as developed by Freud.
Edward Warwick Broadbent, Acting Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,
Christian Science shows that all causation is wholly mental, and that every physical effect is neither more nor less than the expression of a state of consciousness.
James M. Stevens, Committee on Publication for the State of Minnesota,
Permit me to present to your readers a different version of Luke's Christian ministry than the one advanced by the minister whose sermon is reported in your paper, and also to correct the wrong impression which his assertion tends to create relative to Christian Science.
The
Bible, in the light of the teachings of Christian Science, contains spiritual rules or laws, which, if obeyed, will establish freedom and harmony, joy and peace, and reveal the kingdom of God, good, here on earth.
When
Judaism was being established, certain of its priests glimpsed the great fact that in seeking the things of Spirit the individuals of the nation must first express a willingness to part with material things; hence the elaborate system of offerings and sacrifices prescribed by the Levitical holiness codes.
In
the Bible we read, "And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
In
striving to teach her followers needful spiritualization of thought, Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures".
No
one could consider our present sense of the universe, with all its verity of manifestation,—the unfolding of nature and its renewed expression of life in the spring, the planets and constellations of the night and day, the tendency of the races to invent, to be lifted consciously and unconsciously to a greater degree of progression to an individually better pattern,—no one could consider these seeming conditions without some realization that a law other than so-called material energy, operates to further the progress of mankind.
In
his wonderful Sermon on the Mount, Jesus told his followers, for all time, "Ye are the salt of the earth;" but immediately thereafter gave warning that this saltness must be preserved, for continuing, he said: "But if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?