Theodore Burkhart, Committee on Publication for the State of Oregon,
In the "Diet and Health" column in your recent issue there are quoted from the Medical Herald various answers to the question of why one's back aches, as they are laconically given by the "herb man," the "shoe doctor," the "dentist," the "osteopath," and others, including "It don't ache" as the declaration of "C.
J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,
The caption, "Christianity Alone Can Save the World," used as a heading in your recent report of an address by a London bishop before the State College students in Ames, is agreed to most heartily.
Frank Savage, Committee on Publication for Nottinghamshire, England,
You gave in a recent issue of the Guardian the address of the incoming president of the British Medical Association, who is to be congratulated on the generous manner in which he reviewed the question of religious healing.
There
is no more lovely episode in the story of Jesus' birth than that of the shepherds, to whom came the angel choir singing of the coming of the Christ.
The
Bible is replete with admonitions as to the error of borrowing trouble; but no passage decries this habit so emphatically, or enjoins in God more resolutely, than does the sixth chapter of Matthew, verses twenty-five to thirty-four.
In
the tenth chapter of the Gospel according to Mark it is related that as Jesus "went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimæus, the son of Timæus, sat by the highway side begging.
Christian Scientists
are in possession of great wealth in the realization that it is their privilege to know that the law of God, good, is constantly in operation, and always steadily in the one direction of uplifting them from the beliefs in evil and their unhappy results which mortals seem to think it is necessary for them to experience.
