Editorial July 4, 1901 Issue

Sensible Remarks

Editor

The editor of The Sunday Herald of Omaha, Neb., in a recent issue, referring to a suggestion by one of its lowa contemporaries that possibly the fact that Mrs. Conger, the estimable wife of the Hon. E. Conger, was a well-known Christian Scientist, might have had something to do with her husband's failure to get a majority of delegates to the state convention to support him for the nomination for goveraor, makes the following sensible remarks relative to the spirit that would dictate such a charge:—

"It may be true that the fact Mrs. Conger is a Christian Scientist operated against her husband's candidacy where that fact was known. Indeed, it is very probable that the prejudice against Christian Scientists is strong enough to defeat the husband, father, brother, or it may be, the grandson or the great-grandson of a Christian Scientist. Accepting this as correct, it is a sad commentary on the intelligence of the age. However we may differ with the Christian Scientist's method of treating human ailments, there is nothing in the life of the average Christian Scientist to justify serious criticism. Wherever you find a Christian Science Church there you find faith, hope, and charity, and 'the greatest of these' is practised in a most substantial way. There are a number of Christian Scientists in this community. and there is no organization within this city that contributes more to the poor than does the Christian Science organization in Omaha. There is no class of people in this city whose members are more devoted than the class known as Christian Scientists, and who give practical and substantial relif to human beings in need.

"The World-Herald is a great believer in castor oil, and on certain occasions, in its opinion, calomel is a very handy thing to have around the house. But if it be admitted that a faith like that of the Christian Scientist is the faith of a fanatic, if it be admitted that the methods of the Christian Scientist are the methods of the absurd, even so, that absurdity and that fanaticism become virtues in comparison with that abominable prejudice that would ostracize a man or a woman because of his religious belief.

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