Article August 17, 1899 Issue

As to Class Teaching

Perhaps there never was a time in the history of our movement when the matter of class teaching should be more sacredly considered or carefully guarded than at present. The teacher arranging for a class should carefully investigate the character and purpose of every applicant, so as to guard against the possibility of fraud and imposition on the part of the applicant.

More than ever before spies will be hired by the enemies of the cause to get into classes for the express purpose of writing them up in the newspapers by way of sensational matter. This has already been done and may be attempted again.

While it is true that the effusions of hirelings—showing as they do their perfidy and dishonesty in every line they write—will have little weight with a discriminating public, nevertheless, such things add so much more to the general sum of attacks upon Christian Science. Christian Science has nothing to fear from anything that may be published honestly and in a fair spirit in relation to its teaching, whether in class or out of it, but the distortions and attempts at ridicule of unscrupulous hirelings are another matter.

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