The
work of the Publication Committee has been largely in the nature of securing the publication of correct statements of Christian Science, in answer to misstatements which have previously appeared in newspapers, and in this work the members of the Committee almost invariably have found the editors ready to publish the necessary correction, but without assuming responsibility for it or for the original incorrect or offensive article.
The
following excerpts are from an editorial in a recent issue of the Matteawan and Fishkill-on-Hudson Evening Journal, and we take pleasure in commending them to the consideration of any who are tempted to forsake their own legitimate field of labor and discuss their neighbor's religious views from a controversial standpoint.
It
is agreed by many religious writers that those who are striving for more spirituality find greater help in the study of Gospels than in any other part of the Bible.
It
has been claimed that Christian Science practitioners are unfitted to heal the sick in view of their asserted inability to diagnose disease, not having made a study of symptomatology, and to this charge practitioners have made the best possible answer by continuing to do the thing of which they are said to be incapable.
We
are advised by our brethren in Louisiana that the recent attempt of the physicians in that State to secure legislation adverse to the practice of Christian Science has been defeated, the proposed bill having been withdrawn by its author in order to give it, as he said, "a decent burial.
ONE
of the most remarkable lessons given by the great Teacher was that in which he told his disciples that they should be ready to forgive a brother even though he repeated the trespass seven times in a day, the only condition imposed being repentance on the part of the offender.
IN
preparing the contents of this issue of the Sentinel we have been especially impressed by the testimony of several persons who were healed solely through the study of our text-book, and while many such testimonies have been published heretofore, we recall none that has impressed us more profoundly than that of Edith Lamar Burch, which will be found on page 766.
We
can estimate the relative value which the great Teacher placed upon the spiritual and material, when we consider his words, "Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life;" to which he added, "He that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.