Article August 10, 1899 Issue

The Legal Aspect of Christian Science

with contributions from J. E. McKeighan, A. P. DeCamp, James A. Logwood

The following opinions on the above subject were recently published in the St. Louis Republic. The writers are prominent and well known men in the business and professional world as well as in the ranks of Christian Science.

I am asked to give briefly what the Christian Scientists claim their rights to be under the law of the land with respect to their religion and the healing incident thereto. I might content myself with a very short answer to the effect that Christian Scientists claim that their rights are the same as those of other free-born citizens of the United States—no greater, no less.

They believe that it is as great a violation and infringement of their legal constitutional rights to seek by law, with penalties attached, to prevent them from exercising their religion, and the healing indispensably connected therewith, as it would be to compel an Episcopalian, a Methodist, a Presbyterian, or a Unitarian to become members of the same church, or to call in an allopathic instead of a homoeopathic doctor in cases of sickness, or vice versa, just as it might suit the particular or present notion of the law-makers.

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