Editorial September 20, 1900 Issue

A Word of Caution

Editor

There seems to be of late a wave of speculation sweeping over the country. It appears largely in the form of syndicates and stock companies. Some of these purport to be organized on a Scientific basis, promoted by Christian Scientists, and Christian Scientists are asked to interest themselves in them for that reason.

It is obvious that business enterprises should not be put upon such a basis. Scientists should not feel bound to patronize any business venture simply because they are solicited to do so.

Whenever anything has proper endorsement, it is so announced in our periodicals. Unless it is so announced the Field should know that it is simply an individual undertaking, and if they enlist in it, they do so as individuals and on their own responsibility.

This is true, no matter what the form of the proposition, or how it is placed before Scientists.

We will say in this connection that when the time arrives for ascertaining, in a systematic way, the membership of the branch churches, it will be done under proper authority.

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