Article July 11, 1931 Issue

As reported by a resident of Rocksprings, a visiting minister...

Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,

Rocksprings Record

As reported by a resident of Rocksprings, a visiting minister took occasion recently severely to attack Christian Scientists and their religion, and shamefully to asperse the life and character of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy.

While those who have felt the healing and regenerative touch of Christian Science deeply and naturally deplore such unseemly affronts, they are not harmed thereby; but the public has a right to be correctly informed on the subject; hence this correction, with the respectful request that it be given space in your columns.

The question may be properly raised as to what useful purpose such tirades serve. Is it not well established that religious prejudice and intolerance are inimical? It should be possible to disagree with Christian Science, with its students, and with Mrs. Eddy, without recourse to defamation and denunciation. Christian Scientists do not malign other religionists nor attack their teachings; and religious freedom—a cardinal tenet of our fair land—implies and infers freedom from aspersion and misrepresentation.

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