Editorial January 29, 1910 Issue

"NO RESPECT OF PERSONS."

Archibald McLellan

Recently the Board of Directors and the Clerk of The Mother Church have received a number of letters of inquiry in regard to the matter of democratic government in branch churches, and more particularly asking whether the recent utterances of our Leader, the changes in the by-laws, and the articles on this subject which have appeared in the Sentinel from time to time were not intended for the correction of erroneous conditions in one particular field. The following excerpt from the answer of the Board of Directors to one of these letters of inquiry will be useful, we believe, not only to those who have inquired, but also to others who may be in doubt as to the general application of these pronouncements.

In the answer referred to the Directors wrote in part as follows:—

"We are able to state definitely that the advice from our Leader contained in Mr. Dickey's letter in the Christian Science Sentinel of Jan. 15, and the recommendations in George Shaw Cook's article in the Sentinel of Jan. 8, as well as the various editorials which have appeared in the Sentinel in reference to democratic government in branch churches, have not been intended for any one organization, but are equally applicable wherever undesirable conditions obtain.