Article December 22, 1917 Issue

Time was, and not so very long ago, when varying opinions...

Carl E. Herring

Omaha (Neb.) Bee

Time was, and not so very long ago, when varying opinions meant bitterness and enmity. The world generally is learning better, and Christian Science is doing much toward fostering the better way. The churches are learning to lay aside the spirit of rivalry and exist for the community rather than the community for the church. In this spirit Christian Science is offering to the sick and despondent its remedy, and offering it to those who have failed to find cure and rest in the place where Christian Science finds them.

And thus in the same spirit do Christian Scientists regard physicians, forgetting not that while they cannot work together at the same bedside, the physician has brought to the world the highest form of sincere desire for the good of humanity, and has done much, very much, for the alleviation of suffering, improvement of methods of living and sanitation. We would not if we could, put one straw in the way of any of the heroic efforts physicians are making for mankind to ward off pestilence and lighten the terrors of war. Christian Science does ask, and has the right to ask, a fair field in which to demonstrate its fitness to survive, and with this rests content to leave the issue at the bar of public opinion.

We cannot all at once gain the absolute, and inasmuch as the world each day presses its demands upon us, we must meet the issue as it comes, in a practical way and with the highest understanding that we have acquired. For this reason, while deploring the necessity for war and looking forward to the time when the brotherhood of man shall be established in fact as well as in name, Christian Scientists have bowed to the urgent need, lest a worse thing come upon us, and have contributed of their labor and money without stint in every call that has been made upon our patriotism. Their men are at the front and in the recruiting camps. Their women are working shoulder to shoulder with the patriotic women of every other religion or no religion. Their publications, which reach every corner of the civilized world, have upheld the war movement in no uncertain terms.

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