Pastor Langford, writing with reference to the epidemic, makes this statement: "Contrary to the claim of the Scientist, it will not help the situation to remove the fear of the people.
In line with many others who have expressed their approval of the News editorial advising against fear, it is certainly most appropriate that a word of appreciation from Christian Scientists be voiced, especially as a physician, writing in your columns, mentions Christian Scientists as cheerfully complying with the conditions.
"What difference is there between the credulity that relies on some serum or drug and that which looks to some mythical god or some healing virtue accruing from faith in a text or an alleged sacred word?
The
services of the Christian Science church are not only unique as religious worship, but they also afford all who attend these services an opportunity to participate therein if they wish to do so.
Words
are inadequate to express my appreciation for what understanding I have of the truth as demonstrated in Christian Science, especially during the time of the recent epidemic of hypnotic fear which swept our country from ocean to ocean.
Whenever
a fresh revelation of Truth is voiced to the world, the carnal mind, or material consciousness, seeks to put the new wine of spiritual inspiration into the old wine skins of limiting formulas and paralyzing dogmas.
In one of the "Four Minute Sermons by Prominent Clergymen of Tacoma," which covered an entire page of the Ledger, it was a surprise and disappointment to find a discordant note.
