The address on Christian Science, given by a clergyman and reported in your paper, may be said to have been directed to two issues: first, to a repudiation of the theology of its teaching; and, second, to a criticism of its practise.
For the information of those who may have read the summary of a sermon reproduced in a recent issue, permit me to state that Christian Scientists recognize the phenomena of sickness in human experience as clearly as do other persons, and that they fully agree that "the sick have need of physicians".
Noticing in the Item of Saturday [June 22] the stories of suffering in the direction of Barataria by victims of the Hymelia overflow, the Christian Science publication committee for Louisiana has delivered to the Item checks to the amount of $315.
Henry Deutsch, a Jew, who some years ago became a Christian Scientist, believes the Hebrew may do this without losing hold on the fundamentals of the old faith.
