"May I not tender the expression of my sincere thanks for the kind interest your committee has taken in us prisoners in giving us the opportunity to hear a Christian Science lecture?
The letter in your columns, from a local preacher who protested against the enforced closing of churches, is well written and highly commendable, with one exception.
In an issue of your paper appeared an editorial headed "Pseudo Science!" It consisted of an excerpt from an article in The Christian Science Monitor and an attack on the statements made therein.
To
anyone who is not a student of Christian Science and has therefore no understanding of the unreality of evil, the text, "Unto the pure all things are pure," must be wellnigh incomprehensible.
We
usually think of the Sabbath as a day which comes once a week, and not different from other days so far as the physical conditions of weather, number of hours, and the like, are concerned.
In
the Psalms it is recorded that when the Jews were carried away captive and were required by their captors to sing the joyous songs of Zion, they hung their harps on the willows, complaining, "How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
Now
that so much is being heard about a League of Nations and so much highly trained and earnest thought is being bestowed upon the subject and all that it implies and may entail, by some of the most responsible and serious people on both sides of the Atlantic, and on both sides of the equator too, may it not be interesting as well as profitable to examine whether any authority, and if so what sanction can be found for any such an idea or its fulfillment in Holy Writ.
A startling statement from the pen of a critic in these columns is this: "The healing element of Christian Science is part of a heathen philosophy and has nothing in common with the Christian religion.