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Members of the Christian Science church have no desire for controversy with those who disagree with them, but space is asked to correct statements in a letter published in "The Readers' Viewpoint" recently, regarding Mrs. Eddy and prohibition. In his communication the writer of the letter erroneously omitted the words "unconstitutional and unjust" in quoting from "Miscellaneous Writings" by Mary Baker Eddy; so that her statement was not correctly repeated. Mrs. Eddy's whole sentence is as follows: "Unconstitutional and unjust coercive legislation and laws, infringing individual rights, must 'be of few days, and full of trouble; " (ibid., p. 80). The prohibition amendment to the Constitution is not "unconstitutional and unjust," since it was adopted by an almost unanimous vote of the states, following a discussion which lasted in the United States for over fifty years, and in which its justice and moral need were fully established. The constitutionality of the prohibition enforcement law has been sustained by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Christian Scientists approve of constitutional legislation and the enforcement of moral codes, and recognize the right of the majority to make the laws and regulations which shall govern the nation. It was Mrs. Eddy's patriotic policy to "help support a righteous government" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 276); and it is the privilege of her followers to support patriotically this "righteous government" by upholding the Constitution of the United States and the constitutional laws of our nation. Mrs. Eddy did not say, as the writer of the letter mistakenly claimed, that "man, imbued with this Science of healing, is a law unto himself, needing neither license nor prohibition." When referring to divine Mind, God, Mrs. Eddy said (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 260), "Mind, imbued with this Science of healing, is a law unto itself, needing neither license nor prohibition; but lawless mind, with unseen motives, and silent mental methods whereby it may injure the race, is the highest attenuation of evil."

January 29, 1927 issue
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"Unselfed love"
IVA B. LINEBARGER
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Protection versus Self-Will
GERTRUDE S. PERKINS
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Democracy
HAROLD FARMER HALL
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Forward, Christian Scientists!
LAURA SPENCER DOW
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"If ... thine eye be single"
E. HOWARD GILKEY
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True Happiness
OLIVE M. PRICE
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With reference to the editorial in your recent issue, commenting...
Arthur P. De Camp, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,
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Members of the Christian Science church have no desire...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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For the information of your readers, kindly allow me...
Stephen J. Sametz, Committee on Publication for the Province of Manitoba, Canada,
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The Goal
MINNY M. H. AYERS
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Extracts from Reports of Christian Science Committees on Publication for the Year Ended September 30, 1926
Henry Van Dyke
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True Worship
Albert F. Gilmore
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God's Pardon
Duncan Sinclair
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Justice and Mercy
Ella W. Hoag
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The Lectures
with contributions from Bernard Joseph Hinkle, Emil Haupt, Herman P. Thomas, Walter Alfred Tanner
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Nearly four years ago, when I was very much discouraged,...
Marie Antoinette Legros-Barbe with contributions from Ernest Legros
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In the fall of 1916, after experiencing, as I believed,...
Olive A. DeCamp
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Eleven years ago I turned to Christian Science for physical...
Walsworth T. Dimmick
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I feel that the time has come for me to testify to the...
Harriet McKenzie
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For ten years I was an invalid, under the care of various...
Lelia B. Gregory
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"The redeemed should be happier than the elect," Mrs. Eddy...
Louise Eleanor Chapman
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About four years ago I received my first introduction to...
Louisa Elizabeth Gasson
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Christian Science is the "pearl of great price" to me,...
Gladys E. Smith
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Love Divine
THEODORE ALBERT SCHROEDER
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from E. M. Cotton, Canon Anthony C. Deane