A few days ago an item appeared in your paper which stated that because a resident of Yonkers, who was a Christian Scientist, had died without medical treatment, the coroner was making an investigation.
Not so very long ago in New York, a Christian Science practitioner, regularly engaged in Christian Science healing, was convicted of accepting fees from his patients, who were glad to pay for his services, and was sentenced to be punished as a criminal.
May I reply briefly to an editorial in which you express the opinion that Christian Scientists should be compelled by law to qualify as medical practitioners before being allowed to practise their religion for the benefit of the sick?
A recent issue, reporting the sermon of an evangelist holding meetings in your city, contains a brief reference to Christian Science which may be misleading to your readers, and concerning which I should like to make a correction.
I would like to state that the object of my letter in answer to Doctor—'s criticism of Christian Science was to insist upon the fact that Christian Science is a religion which has a spiritual message for mankind.
The sermon on "Christian Science and Christian Logic," of which a notice and a report were published in recent issues, presented a curious contrast with Christian logic as found in the New Testament.
Whenever
and wherever I attend a Christian Science service, I find a goodly number of Jews enthusiastically taking part in the services and testifying to the grand verity of this teaching, and I desire to express my profound gratitude for the bringing of so many of these my people into this wonderful truth.
The
consciousness of the Christian Scientist is like some sweet, still garden, wherein each day is unfolding new blossoms of thought, nourished by the dews of faith, refreshed by the winds of hope, and quickened into life and beauty by the warm sunshine of love.
In
answer to the lawyer who asked him which was "the great commandment in the law," Jesus replied, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
