Recently in the Herald a Pasadena correspondent asked...

Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald

Recently in the Herald a Pasadena correspondent asked for enlightenment as to the Christian Science attitude toward the "existing industrial and social system." To begin with, Christian Scientists perceive much in these systems which is not right, but they do not believe in iconoclasm as a cure. Nor do they believe that evil can be legislated out of existence. Christian Science teaches that the ills of society must be overcome through the improvement of the individual, and it therefore concentrates its effort in this direction. When the individual is right the city, state, and nation are right. When the individual does right from a love of right we need not worry about results.

In the mean time, and while a better class of individuals is in the making, Christian Science believes in the wisest possible legislation that will hold evil and selfishness in check and encourage equity to all. This, however, is expediency and not cure. The cure, as already stated, must begin with the individual who, in proportion to his acquisition of the Christ-mind, voluntarily practises the golden rule, which creates the kingdom of heaven on earth.

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October 16, 1909
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