Article September 22, 1917 Issue

The article on woman's suffrage in your paper quotes...

S. T. Downs

Fort Wayne (Ind.) Journal-Gazette

The article on woman's suffrage in your paper quotes at length from a Parisian by the name of W. L. George, who refers to Christian Science as one of a number of things that contribute to looseness in family affairs. Mr. George's theories of "feminism" and "the religion of nature" are characterized in the article as free-love. When Mr. George, or any other person, attempts to ascribe to Christian Science an influence that would cause family relations to become "looser and looser," or declares there is any association between Christian Science and free-love, he proves thereby that he has no conception of Christian Science teaching.

Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, wrote much that may be said to be epitomized in a brief statement from the chapter on Marriage, in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (P. 57), which reads: "Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it one cannot attain the Science of Life." The opening statement in the article entitled "Wedlock" in her book "Miscellaneous Writings" (P. 285) reads: "It was about the year 1875 that Science and Health first crossed swords with free-love, and the latter fell hors de combat; but the whole warfare of sensuality was not then ended. Science and Health, the book that cast the first stone, is still at work, deep down in human consciousness, laying the axe at the root of error."

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