In your issue of May 22, a writer, under the caption...

Miss Florence L. Carrington, Acting Committee on Publication for Barbados, British West Indies,—Bridgetown

Agricultural Reporter

In your issue of May 22, a writer, under the caption "From an Office Window," speaks of Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of the Christian Science movement, as a neurotic, and implies also that Christian Science is an emotional religion.

Christian Science is the calm, clear teaching that honors God by ascribing all power to Him; and by irrefutable logic it destroys the fear of evil and its seeming power.

Mrs. Eddy deserves and receives the gratitude of thousands of intelligent, honest, logically minded men and women the world over, because she has helped them by her example and her writings to look to God, the creator of His own perfect spiritual universe, for the cure of every discordant condition, as did Jesus.

The purpose of the Christian Science movement is expressed in the following words of the Manual of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, namely, "to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" (p. 17).

One of the tenets of this church, to which all its members must subscribe, reads as follows: "And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 497; Church Manual, p. 16). In such teaching there is no emotionalism, in the commonly accepted meaning of the term.

Peace will not come by indolent wishing for it. Our desire must be translated into action; we must seek to create the intellectual and moral atmosphere in which peace thrives, to cultivate links of personal friendship, to train the sympathetic imagination which will enable us to view the world from the standpoint of those from whom we are divided by race, color, or culture. But love is the ultimate cure for prejudice and spitefulness, for bitterness and hatred, for greed and ambition.—A. S. Peake.

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