Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The Mother Church,
Many people have wondered why readers of newspapers are supposed to be interested in the unfavorable opinions of Christian Science which are expressed by some representatives of other religions.
In
studying the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we can often obtain great help and illumination from the marginal headings.
A lover
of flowers, having occasion to pass daily through a park on the way to business, observed in the early spring days the first promise of growth appearing in a bed of tulips.
Defining
"thought" Webster says that it is "a mental state chiefly characterized by a process of reflection;" and he draws a clear line of demarcation between actual thought and its counterfeit, the mortal, mental modus, in the explanation that it is "mental concentration on ideas as distinguished from sense perception or emotions.
J. N. Van Patten, Committee on Publication for the State of California,
While it is a matter of common knowledge that the remarkable growth of Christian Science has been largely dependent upon the destruction in the lives of its adherents of evil, both sin and sickness, it is decidedly conjectural what is to be understood from the statement attributed to a rabbi in a recent issue of your paper that "Christian Science ignores evil and imagines the good.
Richard E. Prince, Committee on Publication for the State of Virginia,
I was much interested to read in a recent issue of your periodical an article on autosuggestion by a professor, and I congratulate him on his discovery of the significant fact that thought governs the organs and functions of the physical body.
Kate E. Andreae, Committee on Publication for Sussex County,
When a writer bases his criticisms on sentences torn from their context, it is not possible for him to give his readers a right impression of the subject.