Editorial January 29, 1903 Issue

"Put Up Thy Sword"

WHEN the beginnings of Christian Science shall have found their true perspective, and the unprejudiced historian of the future addresses himself to the critical and comparative study of this epoch-making movement, he will not fail to note that inoffensiveness was one of its distinctive features.

Subject to a quality and a persistence of criticism which, from every point of view, is no less astonishing than discreditable, it has maintained a dignified silence, or, if it has spoken, it has been to express Christian charity and good-will toward all, including those who have been its severest detractors; and one of the many things for which all Christian Scientists have occasion to be very thankful is this, that the tone of our periodicals and of the work of the Publication Committee has not been marked by recrimination, counter-charge, or bitterness of reply; and that, under circumstances which were most trying, a truly Christian attitude has been so maintained, that our cause has been commended, and a potent, though silent, rebuke has been given to those who were led through ignorance or prejudice to trespass either upon the rights of religious freedom, or the proprieties of Christian courtesy.

Thankful indeed we may all be, for this attainment of our cause even though the remembrance of our own ofttimes ill-repressed resentment may interdict our personal appropriation of any part of the credit.

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