Article July 22, 1944 Issue

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D. F. J. Harricks

D. F. J. Harricks, Committee on Publication for New South Wales, Australia
Clarion, Lithgow

In a recent issue of your valued paper it was reported that a witness in a court case declared that because she was a Christian Scientist she could not take the usual oath.

There has been, unfortunately, some misunderstanding, because Christian Scientists as a general rule have no objection to taking the oath when required to do so. Indeed they willingly do so, for they have a high regard for the process of law.

Further, in anything concerning the laws of the land their teaching is quite plain. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 220), Mary Baker Eddy writes: "I believe in obeying the laws of the land. I practise and teach this obedience, since justice is the moral signification of law."

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