Article June 1, 1929 Issue

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Arthur J. Chapman, Committee on Publication for the State of Louisiana,—Shreveport

Times

Referring to a letter published in your issue of 3d inst., your correspondent makes mention of the church By-Laws. Christian Scientists are perfectly satisfied with their ByLaws. They are not only complete and effective, and all that is needed to carry on the work of the church and its numerous activities, but they have stood the test of public opinion and the courts of the land.

Mrs. Eddy, through her writings, will always be the Leader of the Christian Science movement. She wrote the church By-Laws and established its government, but her followers do not maintain that she is their Leader in any spiritualistic sense—notwithstanding statements to the contrary.

The Mother Church is not "antimedical." Christian Scientists have the highest appreciation of the work of the honest and consistent medical practitioner. Efforts to align the medical fraternity against legitimate Christian Science practice will not succeed, for the reason that the majority of medical practitioners are men and women of high standing who appreciate that one whose purpose is to practice in accord with and manifest fidelity to the fundamental teachings of his or her professon, will gain public approval. The Bible says, "No man can serve two masters;" and Mrs. Eddy is consistent when she says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 40), "To mingle hygienic rules, drugs, and prayers in the same process" is to "serve 'other gods.'"

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