I am sure that if our reverend critic would study the eighth chapter of Romans and the tenets on page 497 in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," together with the letter already written, he will find a complete answer to his criticism.
An item in your issue of November 26, stating that the highest death rate ever known in your city occurred in the recent epidemic of influenza, included an extract from your health officer's report in which he takes a gratuitous fling at Christian Scientists which is as misleading as it is uncalled for.
The Authorized Version of the English translation of the Bible, beautiful and wonderful as it is, and in many ways the finest and best translation of any literature extant, yet fails in some instances to convey the deeper inspiration of the Scriptures because of the retention of place-names and symbolical terms, which make such passages more or less meaningless to the ordinary reader.
After
fifty months of war on the part of the Allies in Europe and nineteen months for our American boys, we see with great rejoicing and thanksgiving our Father's hand leading us up and on into a world governed by justice and gladdened by peace.
The
experience of the writer in becoming acquainted with the teachings of Christian Science was perhaps a trifle different from that of the average student.
A mid
the sounds of rejoicing over the announcement of the dawn of peace upon a war-swept world this message of deep import comes to us in the words of our Leader: "Heaven's favors are formidable: they are calls to higher duties, not discharge from care".
It
is sometimes a matter of considerable surprise to the one just turning to Christian Science for help to discover that instead of being encouraged to talk to the practitioner about himself and his troubles the practitioner seems much more interested in talking to him about God.