Whittier's
picture of "the passive soul" who "in waiting stands" to receive the blessings of "the one true Life," makes a very insistent appeal in moments of quietness.
The statement in a recent issue, by an evangelist, that Christian Scientists do not know how to pray, voices a notion sometimes held by those who judge superficially.
In a recent issue of the News, a contributor whose good intentions are obvious, unfortunately attempted an explanation of Christian Science which might create with your readers the impression that autosuggestion is the most efficient factor in its healing work, whereas it would be difficult to find two subjects more diametrically opposed to each other.
In the Weekly Reporter of recent date you indulge in a good-natured joke on Christian Scientists because, while they hold that pain is an illusion, you "have never seen one yet who would not drop a hot poker just as if it were the real thing.
A sermon entitled "The Truth about Christian Science," reported in a recent issue of the Record, contains so many misstatements that it should not pass without correction.
The editorial entitled "Unskilled Tampering with Human Ailments," which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association recently, and which was reprinted with brief comments in your paper, contained the latest device of this association for obtaining control of all efforts to prevent or cure disease.
