Article February 19, 1927 Issue

For the past two months every issue of the Haldeman-Julius Weekly...

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

Haldeman-Julius Weekly

For the past two months every issue of the Haldeman-Julius Weekly has published some critical comment regarding Christian Science and its Founder, Mary Baker Eddy. A recent issue contains a letter supposed to have been written by a correspondent of Galion, Ohio, in which he relates his experiences in Christian Science. Although this writer states that his mother was not healed through Christian Science treatment, this is no proof that Christian Science does not heal; neither does the editor have the legal or moral right to state that Christian Science practitioners are "grafters," or to refer to Mrs. Eddy, among other opprobrious names, as a grafter.

The statutes of Kansas afford to Christian Scientists the undoubted right to practice their system of healing. The law, after defining the "practice of medicine and surgery," says, "But nothing in this act shall be constructed as interfering with any religious beliefs of the treatment of diseases, provided that quarantine regulations relating to contagious diseases are not infringed upon." Because an individual does not agree with another's political or religious views, he has no moral right to attack in any way these views as held by another. It is the aim of Christian Scientists to live up to the truth of this statement, and the admonition as set forth in their textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 444), wherein they are advised by their Leader, Mrs. Eddy, "to be charitable and kind, not only towards differing forms of religion and medicine, but to those who hold these differing opinions."

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