Article November 22, 1924 Issue

My attention has been called by a number of your readers...

Harry L. Rhodes, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,—Girard

Haldeman-Julius Weekly

My attention has been called by a number of your readers to the recent ironical references to The Christian Science Monitor and its editor appearing in your columns. May I have space to reply? The Monitor has no desire to attack any individual concerning his religion. The fact that the Monitor opposed certain Roman Catholics as candidates for public office is not equivalent to supporting the Ku Klux Klan. The Monitor has, from time to time, commended or criticized certain acts attributed to the Klan without either becoming an opponent or a supporter of that organization. The Christian Science Monitor is an international newspaper,—the great model of clean daily journalism. It does not uphold any one or more individuals as against any other group. Neither does it "stir racial and religious warfare," but ministers truly to the great human need. It seeks out good, and strives to encourage and increase it. It detects evil impartially and universally, and strives to overcome it.

Because the Monitor praises the virtues of one man does not necessarily mean that everything about the man is justified. Neither does the pointing out of an error condemn the idividual. The Monitor is not a "Klan paper;" neither does it make its appeal to racial hatreds; but it strives to "overcome evil with good." It does not claim to have as yet attained perfection, but it is striving daily to carry out the intent of its Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, who wrote in the first issue of this paper that "the object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind" (Miscellany, p. 353). Instead of encouraging her followers to be at strife with others, Mrs. Eddy has included in the Manual of The Mother Church a Daily Prayer (p. 41) which reads: "It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to pray each day: 'Thy kingdom come;' let the reign of divine Truth, Life, and Love be established in me, and rule out of me all sin; and may Thy Word enrich the affecions of all mankind, and govern them!"

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