Your paper published a statement made before the Panama-Pacific dental congress in San Francisco to the effect that Christian Science and other systems of healing are superstitions.
In the letter of a correspondent, Christian Science is bracketed with "theosophy, spiritualism, and kindred doctrines," as though they were one and the same thing, and the writer gives three points of divergence between these "kindred doctrines" and his own views of Christianity, just as though the various churches today were not themselves in a state of disagreement and unrest over these very points.
Unless the council of Constance was right in saying to John Huss that no faith need be kept with a heretic, the anonymous defamation of Christian Scientists, to which circulation was recently given by The Alliance Weekly, cannot be justified.
I would be glad to have space in which to comment on the letter of a writer who objects to an article on the subject of education which appeared in The Christian Science Monitor.
In
his illuminating talk with the woman of Samaria, Christ Jesus declared, "God is a Spirit," or, as the American Standard Version of the Bible in a foot-note renders it, "God is Spirit.
When
the nations of the earth groan under the burden of war, and on all sides we hear of heroic deeds and self-sacrifice, one can but be impressed with the patriotism and devotion which impels the citizens of those countries.
Today
surely demands that we think and act from a higher mental plane than we did yesterday; that we recoginize and destroy the false claim of lethargy, free ourselves from stereotyped opinions, and come forth stripped of mortal vestures, and thus better fitted for the ennobling race that is set before us.
