It
was early on a summer morning that one just awakening from sleep heard through an open window the faint, soft song of a wood-thrush from a leafy covert some half a mile distant.
In
the book of Job we read, "Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity," and in Proverbs it is written, "A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
One of the first protests which Christian Scientists will enter against our critic's methods is based on his use of the title "evangelist" to cloak an attack on followers of Christ Jesus, to whose teachings he also vows allegiance.
In a sermon reported in your paper the attempt was made to couple Christian Science with various systems of religious belief, the statement being made that only those who do not understand the Bible are followers of those teachings.
That Christian Science makes bad citizens good and good citizens better, and that it has done so in Joplin, an evangelist critic did not attempt to deny.
In one issue of your paper was an article enumerating the medical graduates for the last three years, according to statistics from the Journal of the American Medical Association, and showing the steady decrease as compared with previous years.
