To
the casual inquirer Christian Scientists must at times seem contradictory in their statements; for instance, when a stranger attends a Wednesday evening service and hears clear and impressive testimonies of healing, and then, perhaps next day, is told by a friend of "so and so" who "tried Christian Science" and it "did not do him a bit of good.
Contrary to the assertion of the author of a paper quoted in your issue of May 18, there is no important resemblance between prevailing Buddhism and Christian Science.
In an admirable article redolent with common sense in a recent issue with the heading, "Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise," a kindly reference is made to Christian Science in the following words: "There is a psychological fact at the bottom of it—the fact that the mind has a powerful influence on the body.
Your courteous editorial reference to the recent prosecution of a Christian Scientist in New York for practising medicine without a license should remind us that under such laws Jesus and the apostles would have been required to exhibit a medical license before healing the sick by the purely spiritual means which they employed.
In your issue for the month of April there is a reference to Christian Science which is, it seems to me, unnecessarily discourteous in tone; but it is something more,—it shows an ignorance of Christian Science so overwhelming that at first it seems scarcely worth while correcting.
