To the Editor :— Recent expressions in your columns adverse to Christian Science lead me to ask the privilege of making a statement or two regarding the subject, in the hope of correcting some of the erroneous impressions that exist regarding its teaching and practice, as it is believed it is these false conceptions of what Christian Science is supposed to be, and not what it is, that calls forth criticism.
Originally too limited in operation and too short in duration, the Truce of God must again be proclaimed for all places, and all times — proclaimed to all mankind and all nations.
In
honor of the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Gutenberg, or Johann Gensfleisch of Gutenberg, the inventor of typography, a celebration was begun on June.
To
preach was ever easier than to practise, but how much more good is accomplished when the preaching is preceded and accompanied all the way by proof, the right living which makes Truth manifest.
Thinking
it may be of interest to the Field to know something of the results of the work in our state prison I send the enclosed letter from those who are making a study of Christian Science in the Washington State Penitentiary, located in Walla Walla.
In
a material age the word Spirit, or spiritual, fills many minds with a sense of mystery and aversion, the word finds no place in the nomenclature of the chemical laboratories, and is not therefore supposed to represent anything that has any actual, substantial existence.
