Dear Journal:—I have just been reading your excellent editorial in the Christian Science Weekly, for September 29, and I hope this will be of value to you in that connection.
I heard Pundita Ramabai, in a Rochester (N. Y.) Sunday School, and I am sure, if it were not for the influence of her friends, she and her daughter would become good Scientists. They both spoke at the time I refer to, and are undoubtedly devout and zealous Christians. In her remarks on the famine in India, Mrs. Ramabai said that when some of the children from the famine districts were brought into her mission, they were in such a terrible condition for lack of food, that everything seemed to hurt their stomachs. She said that after the children had been told about Jesus and his love for them, some of them prayed to be healed, and they were healed.
I think that Mrs. Ramabai's opposition to Science is due in great measure to her friend, Mrs. G., wife of an ex-missionary to India. Mrs. G. is, or was, bitterly opposed to Science, and in speaking of it, called it "the work of the devil." She is an exellent Christian woman, as I know from acquaintance, but is very much mistaken in some of her views Yours very truly,
