Article December 6, 1930 Issue

In your issue of May 2 there appeared a telegram to...

John Murray Burriss, as Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,—Topeka

State Journal

In your issue of May 2 there appeared a telegram to Governor Clyde M. Reed in which it was urged that the Governor and the Attorney-General inaugurate a "drive against Christian Science practitioners and faith healers in general who use religion as a cloak for their racket, which, of course, is to get the kale."

The author of this telegram has been for some time a persistent critic of what he understands Christian Science to be. His immoderate use of language when speaking of Christian Science leaves little doubt that his opposition to this religion is inspired by prejudice, indeed, so much so that his uncharitable utterances have little, if any, weight with persons who look upon fairness and tolerance as desirable qualities of mind in discussing a subject of such universal interest as religion.

His particular animus at this time, according to the published telegram, centers on the practice of Christian Science, which he condemns as wholly mercenary; but this assertion is as unkind as it is untrue. There is not a more unselfish or a more consecrated body of workers in the world to-day than Christian Science practitioners, and the modest fees which they receive for their services as compared with the fees commonly received by many medical practitioners, are a sufficient refutation of the charge of mercenariness on the part of Christian Science practitioners.

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