Kindly permit me to say to your readers, with reference to a paragraph in the Telegram, that Christian Scientists do not declare that influenza can be fought off by will power.
Isaiah
speaks of the beauty of him "that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!" Then should not we as present witnesses of God's power be glad to bring forward from our storehouse of experience anything at this time of the world's sore need, be the experience great or small, which will show indeed the truth of the fact that God reigns?
In
the twenty-ninth chapter of I Chronicles it is related that both princes and people "offered willingly" toward the building of the temple, and we are told that David, lifting his heart to God, spoke before all the congregation, saying, "But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort?
It is somewhat strange that a man who is before the public as a revivalist, or one who is endeavoring to promote a revival of religion, should so stray from the path of propriety as to say harsh and unnecessary things about a subject of which it is apparent he has little, if any, knowledge.
Replying to the numerous erroneous and misleading statements which appear in the article, "Philosophy and Morals of Christian Science," it is very evident that this denunciation of the teachings of Mrs.
