Editorial March 4, 1911 Issue

"THE TONGUE OF THE CRAFTY."

Archibald McLellan

We have been requested to sound again a note of warning to Christian Scientists, to be on their guard against impostors. This has been asked for the particular benefit and protection of those whose interest in Christian Science is comparatively recent, and who have therefore less reason to question the genuineness of the appeal for help that is so plausibly presented. Within the last few months the Publishing Society has been asked to assist in safeguarding other communities in several instances of this kind, and just recently word has come to us that our English friends are being called upon to face this problem. It seems well, therefore, to emphasize the need of investigating the genuineness of the call for aid when it is preferred by a stranger. No one who is really worthy of assistance will object to this precaution, and the sooner the other class is detected and exposed, the better it will be for the community at large.

The editorial which appeared under the above caption was published in the Sentinel of Feb. 13, 1909, after a series of impositions had come to light, and as it covers the ground sufficiently for the purpose, it is doubtless all that is needed to put our readers on guard against all such attempts to defraud. The editorial is as follows:

From time to time there come to us from readers of the Sentinel letters which tell us that the cities in which the writers reside have been visited by itinerant impostors who, upon the strength of such plausible tales of destitution as are best suited to their purpose, have succeeded in victimizing Christian Scientists by borrowing money from them.

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