With reference to the item reprinted in your March numday, in which Christian Science is included under the systems classed as "overstrained religiousness," I beg to observe that this grouping suggests that Christian Science has not been thoroughly studied or its teachings rightly understood by the writer of the article.
With reference to the item reprinted in your March number from The Churchman, to the effect that during a Red Cross drive for membership in New York last December Christian Scientists tore down Red Cross posters, destroyed a Red Cross booth, and forbade a Red Cross agent to solicit members, I would ask you to give equal circulation to my statement that this report is entirely false.
Christian Science, being Science, being the demonstration of Principle, naturally and inevitably pursues its way in the demonstration and exposition of Principle, quite regardless of opinion—for there can be no opinion in Science—or of all apparent evidence of any presence or condition out of accord with Principle.
Walking
through the residential part of a city one morning the writer noticed two children descending the steps of neighboring houses with their school books, evidently just starting for school, and heard one say to the other, "Oh, did you get your invitation?
Before
coming into an understanding of Christian Science, light to us had always meant the sun, and much of our happiness and our sorrows had seemed to result from sunshine or gloom, even so-called disease being traced to weather conditions.
It
was in the early evening of an autumn day when an occupant of a railway coach looked out into the western sky upon a wondrous glowing star somewhat above the horizon.
The
members of the Churches of Christ, Scientist, invite their friends, neighbors, and the strangers within their gates to a midweek feast—fifty-two of them a year.
Had
the people in the wilderness of long ago spiritually understood the majestic enunciation echoing from the heights of Horeb, "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord," the trend of human history would have been changed.