Article October 2, 1909 Issue

The editor of this paper is not a Christian Scientist,...

Santa Cruz (Cal.) News

The editor of this paper is not a Christian Scientist, ... but so long as he has a voice in his community he will lift it in behalf of religious toleration—in behalf of the right of every man to worship at any altar he sees fit. This paper has been charged with a desire to stir up dissension in this community. It is singular that this charge comes from the very ones who seem bent on rending this people into warring factions—for what ends we do not know, but they certainly do not seem to be the ends of the gentle "Prince of Peace," who admonished his followers to love one another. We would suggest to some of the humble workers in the cause of the Saviour of mankind that they will best serve him by setting an example in forbearance and brotherly love before the community whose spiritual guides they would be.

We do not know anything about Mr.—; perhaps our ignorance of him is as profound as that possessed by the clergymen who support him. We only know that since his appearance in a neighboring city the papers there have been filled with wrangling letters from Christians who are on the one side or the other, and we know that no good is to come of a movement on the part of the local ministers to crush any sect, or drive people away from another church into their own. The churches have enough to contend with in the way of opposition without stirring up more of their own.

Moreover, on clergyman with a fine sense of the proprieties should devote his church to any purpose other than that of religious worship. He gets exemption from taxation only upon the sworn statement that his church is used for no other purpose. The clergyman who rails at others for failure to observe the law should observe it himself. Certainly the Christian Scientists of California, who are very numerous, have a right to protest as individual property owners against carrying the burden of taxation of church property which is used for attacks upon their creed.

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