A writer in your "Free Lance" columns, under the heading of "Free Thinking and Churches" expresses some views on Christianity and takes occasion to say, "Christian Science is not a religion, it is a business.
Your issue of recent date carried a dispatch with a New York date line to the effect that the aid of the courts had been sought by a Christian Scientist for the collection of a claim against the estate of a former patient for "metaphysical help," and that it was the first time so far as known that one of this faith had employed legal means to force payment of such an account.
In an issue of your paper you publish a report of two sermons preached in the Ocean Grove Auditorium, and some of the reported statements do not accord with truth and fact.
As a reported address on Christian Science contains misleading statements, due, no doubt, to limited information, will you kindly allow a brief correction?
A contributor to your paper seems to think that a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, when delivering his able lecture on Christian Science, was "greatly disturbed mentally in reference to the mist referred to in Genesis 2:6.
With reference to a letter in an issue of your paper, kindly permit me to say in your columns that nearly all students of Christian Science have easily understood its distinction between what is real and what merely seems to be real.
When
one considers the discordant conditions which have confronted man from the dawn of human history, and which seem to be so much in evidence at the present time, one may well be led to accept the explanation given by Christian Science, that these conditions are fundamentally the result of disobedience to God.
