There
are many words which, before the study of Christian Science enabled us to read them aright, bore sinister and unfavorable meanings, but which we now know to have meanings of a wholly different character.
To
the one who has repeatedly received benefit from the study and practice of Christian Science, who has been healed both morally and physically, and who has gained some ability to prove the helpfulness of reliance on Principle in whatever vocation he may be engaged, there is no instruction more desirable than that which enables one to replace reliance on self with trust in a present knowledge of God.
The
more thoroughly the student of Christian Science studies the writings of our revered Leader, the more profoundly impressed he is sure to become by her wonderful spiritual insight and marvelously incisive analysis of the word of Truth.
To say that Christian Science and Mormonism resemble each other because each has had a founder and an explanatory literature, is like saying that two houses are alike because both have foundations, walls, doors, windows, and roof.
Results are what count in the last analysis, and even if the critics of Christian Science spend "years of careful research" among its avowed enemies, and attempt to verify these findings from "the highest scientific and ecclesiastical scholars" equally antagonistic, such efforts amount to little in the face of the actual mental, moral, and physical regeneration taking place daily in hundreds of cases under Christian Science treatment.
Your recent editorial entitled "Mental Healing as a Commercial Asset," based on an item in the Journal of the American Medical Association, while possibly intended to be kindly as well as facetious, was so written as to give further currency to certain misapprehensions or misrepresentations of Christian Science.
