The gentleman who criticized The Christian Science Monitor in your issue of Augest 14 for its editorial comment on a public statement made by Cardinal Begin, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Quebec, ignored the point and reason of the comment which furnished the occasion for his letter.
The pastor of Stockton's largest evangelical church intimated from the pulpit last Sunday that the press of Stockton was discriminatory in this: it published pages for a church devoted to the gospel of health and little for other churches.
The idea of some future state where compensation would be made for the ills of this world, and where virtue would find its perfect reward, has been common to most races, but in early times it undoubtedly found its most vivid expression amongst the Hebrews and those nations contiguous to them.
The
teacher was comparatively young in the study of Christian Science, and when she was given charge of a class in the Sunday school, she was at first filled with fear, for she knew something of the child mind and its capacity for asking questions, and she was aware of her own lack of knowledge.
Undoubtedly
there is nothing that strikes more of a sense of terror or hopelessness to the human heart than the thought that one is the victim of some hereditary condition, for the relief of which all human skill has proved of no avail.
Christ Jesus was misunderstood, misrepresented, and maligned, all because his hearers endeavored to judge his absolutely spiritual precepts and practice from a premise of material hypotheses and doctrinal beliefs.
