Letters January 12, 1952 Issue

LETTERS TO THE PRESS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION

The Clatskanie Chief

Clatskanie, Oregon The Clatskanie Chief

In a recent issue of The Clatskanie Chief your Hollywood columnist offers her opinion that the children of Christian Scientists are fortunate to be living in a country where other youngsters are vaccinated against diseases such as smallpox. I will appreciate space in an early issue of your paper to point out that the real blessing which this nation offers to Christian Scientists and their offspring is its constitutional guarantee of religious freedom and its laws in every state which protect one's right to employ his religion in heeding and preventing both sickness and sin. When we witness the suppression of the rights of conscience in other lands, we in the United States should be grateful that as Mary Baker Eddy, the. Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, declared over fifty years ago, "No crown nor sceptre nor rulers rampant can quench the vital heritage of freedom—man's right to adopt a religion, to employ a physician, to live or to die according to the dictates of his own rational conscience and enlightened understanding" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 128).

Reliance upon Him "who healeth all thy diseases" (Ps. 103:3), as taught and practiced in Christian Science, presents no menace to the public health. Your readers will be interested to know that the Railroad Retirement Board and an increasing number of leading insurance companies, as well as certain state Workmen's Compensation Commissions, recognize Christian Science treatment and accept statements from our practitioner in settling health and accident claims.

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