Article November 3, 1906 Issue

EDITORIAL COMMENT

The old rumor that has been started so many times about Mrs. Eddy being ill, being represented by a substitute, being out of her mind,—in short, a lot of nonsense,—has been taken so seriously this time that Scientists have been greatly disturbed and have taken committees of prominent people in Concord to call on her and the alleged substitute. These all unite in saying that Mrs. Eddy is well and keen of mind and manages her own affairs, the last being respectfully suggested as a course that her calumniators ought to emulate. There is nothing gained by such baseless rumors. It is a method that does not commend itself to any creed or any following, for the time that is wasted in decrying others inevitably takes away from our own achievements. No matter what the physical and bodily state of Mrs. Eddy, it is the concern of her followers; and if every allegation were true, it ought to be a matter of regret to the community.

This country, this age, permits all degrees of religious freedom. Any man has at any time a right to set up anything that he believes is satisfactory to himself, provided he does not insist on its being satisfactory to his neighbor by compulsion. It is not Christianity to be criticising others' beliefs. So live that they will feel impelled to follow yours if they can.

Again, by their fruits shall ye know them. The Christian Scientists in every community have come to be more than a debatable factor. They are a force for the betterment of the material good, certainly, whether we agree with them spiritually or not. They erect handsome houses, fine edifices that are educational in their beauties of line and ornament; they are friends to culture and refinement and charity of thought and deed. And spiritually a creed that believes in being bright, cheerful, in refusing to consider evil triumphant, and that exemplifies its teachings in its lives, should be regarded by all other creeds as having a right to place, not persecution.—New London (Conn.) Globe.

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