S. Britton R. Foster, Committee on Publication for the Province of Ontario, Canada,
Christian Science, or the Science of Christianity, is the knowledge of the unlabored energy of the divine Mind, God, "who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction.
Charles E. Heitman, Committee on Publication for the State of New York,
A critic would evidently have us believe that the healing of disease by spiritual means is identical with and inseparable from mysticism and superstition, and is due to nothing more than a blind faith in the power of God.
Augustus Long, Committee on Publication for the State of Nevada,
In an article appearing in your paper of February 12 under the heading, "Urge Medicine and Church to Unite Efforts," reference was made to "the so-called faith healer," which we presume refers to Christian Scientists.
Miss Florence B. Russell, Committee on Publication for Hampshire, England,
Will you allow me space to make a few explanations which are called for by the remarks which you have reported from a speech made at the annual appeal for funds for East London?
While
the individual who is becoming interested in Christian Science may think that he has always had a feeling of reverence for God and, perhaps, a slight understanding of Him, as progress is made in Christian Science he may realize that his reverence was largely emotional and his understanding theoretical.
In
a brief article a modern writer, endeavoring to impress upon inexperienced writers the value of simplicity, describes his visit to a silversmith in search of a soup ladle.
"Every
good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning," we read in the epistle of James.
We
read in the fifth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, "Him [Jesus] hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
It
is not inconsistent that children, seeing themselves under continual guidance and correction, should look for perfection in those who have reached the age of maturity; but they find that years have not always yielded the fertility of goodness that they might well expect to see.