Ever
since the fruit from the "tree of knowledge" was first eaten, the world has taken upon its shoulders the responsibility of designating the right and wrong of human belief.
When
one finds that another is entertaining a belief which differs radically and yet honestly from his own, and that one deems it worth while to consider the reasons for the difference, it is useful to compare the points of view.
In his last letter to your paper "Junius" enumerates again the good things he concedes to be in Christian Science, and generously adds another in that he "recognizes The Christian Science Monitor as a good newspaper.
Your correspondent is perfectly correct when he says that the power of the will, or, as he expresses it, of mind over matter, was known thousands of years before the Science of Christianity was discovered.
That the founders of the American republic reached the point of divine inspiration in some of the statements contained in the Declaration of Independence there can be little doubt.
