Article August 17, 1899 Issue

Another Christian Science Department

In opening a Christian Science Department as a regular feature of the paper, the Woman's Weekly of Omaha, Neb., says editorially:—

The new department on another page, edited by Mrs. Hamblin, is believed to be one of interest to a large number of people in the state and city. The Weekly has not investigated the doctrines of the Christian Scientists, but it knows several people who profess to believe those doctrines, and they are respectable people, who say they are trying to lead pure lives, and the evidence sustains the statement. The practice of the Christian Scientists is not to refute any sort of slander, as they believe that the truth will finally prevail. For that reason they suffer greatly on account of newspaper criticisms, in the minds of many people who are observers. There is no paper hereabouts that has taken up the fight in their defense, and when the proposition came to the Weekly to do that, it was met as every such proposition has always been met during its six years of life with the assurance on the part of the editor, that space would be gladly furnished for them to set forth anything which seems to be for the good of humanity.

The paper has no apologies to make for this course. It believes that if the Christian Scientists are right in all their notions, that every one should get on their side as soon as possible. It believes if they are wrong, the more publicity given to their doctrines, the sooner they will perish from the minds of men.

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