The
commemoration of certain days in the year by material gift-giving has been more or less general in certain countries; but sometimes this pleasant custom exceeds wisdom by creating a dependence upon a form of pleasure in which it may not be always possible to participate.
Miss Kate E. Andreae, Committee on Publication for Sussex, England,
Branch churches and societies, and Christian Scientists all over the world, acknowledge Mary Baker Eddy as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.
Lester B. McCoun, Committee on Publication for the State of Nebraska,
The critic seeks to interpret some of Christ Jesus' sayings and works in such a manner as to have it appear that Jesus not only indorsed material means for healing but actually resorted to such methods.
Miss Ellen Graham, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,
The teachings of Christian Science have opened the eyes of many who had been blinded by the mesmeric belief that life is in matter and is subject to matter; and it has often thereby healed them instantaneously of disease pronounced incurable by medical science.
J. O. Thomson, Committee on Publication for the Province of Victoria, Australia,
Christian Science teaches that Christ is the Son of God, as Christ Jesus himself declared, and also that every individual spiritual man is the son of God.