Editorial October 18, 1900 Issue

To our Co-workers

Editor

The workers at headquarters cannot be your Conscience. They cannot settle matters which only you can settle. They cannot make atonement for you. Christian Science does not teach the doctrine of a substituted salvation, but it teaches the true Scriptural doctrine that each must work out his own salvation,—aided as he is by helps innumerable, if he will only recognize and avail himself thereof.

Will you not realize, dear brethren, that in appealing to persons at headquarters you are placing reliance upon person instead of divine Principle? on man instead of on God?

It is true, that there are certain things you may properly submit, but it is also true that there are scores of things written to headquarters which the workers here can do nothing about. They have neither the knowledge nor the authority to act; and if they had, it would, in the great majority of cases, be unwise and inexpedient to undertake to act, for they relate to matters that only those immediately concerned, can possibly adjust.

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