Editorial November 6, 1902 Issue

Rights and Duties

Archibald McLellan

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS present themselves to the world as a people consistently following the teachings of Jesus, the accepted Master and Exemplar of Christianity, rendering to God the things that are God's and to Caesar the things that are Caesar's. Their position is that of law-abiding citizens, enjoined to be scrupulously exact in observing the laws of the land, careful of the rights of their fellow-men, asking no more for themselves than they are willing to grant to others, and patiently to seek the religious liberty guaranteed to all men under the constitution of all free countries.

The first amendment of the constitution of the United States provides that

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" and further (14th amendment, Sect. 1), that "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States ... nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

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