In a recent issue Assistant Attorney-General Johnson is reported as saying to the suffragists that they had a Christian Science case,—"they only think they have one.
In a recent communication a correspondent has criticized what he believes to be Christian Science, but his conceptions of the subject are so far from the truth that some explanation is due your readers.
When
Herod ordered the slaughter of the Bethlehem children he was foiled in his attempt to destroy the child Jesus by a warning imparted to Joseph in a vision, which caused him to take the babe and his mother secretly into Egypt.
Since
I am only one of the thousands of mothers who have been called upon to part with their sons in the recent sweeping selective draft, my experience has no doubt been duplicated in many homes in the United States of America.
At
an annual meeting of The Mother Church one of its officers in the course of his report urged the constant recognition by Christian Scientists of the fact that there is in reality only one director of The Mother Church activities; meaning, of course, that divine Principle is the one intelligence upon which the movement is dependent for guidance.
Whether The Christian Science Monitor has lost much of its former excellence since the entrance of this country into the war, as The Miami Metropolis has asserted, must be a matter of individual opinion, yet the further comment that The Christian Science Monitor has become a British newspaper can hardly be true, unless there is a substantial disagreement between the United States and the United Kingdom with regard to the war.
