No legislation is needed in Missouri for the persecuting of any person or class, so long as that individual or assemblage of individuals is not threatening the peace and safety nor interfering with the rights of any other citizen or legitimate interest of the State.
Our critic has never manifested much love for Christian Science, and his statements regarding it have always had a ring of sarcasm mingled with his misunderstanding of the subject.
The Post knows very little of the doctrinal beliefs and practices of the sect known as Christian Scientists, beyond the fact that some of the most intelligent and representative men and women of the State believe in Christian Science and that it is their business and their right to believe in it without the slightest interference from the doctors or the Legislature.
While it is true that the treatment of disease by Christian Science is radically opposed to the methods of the orthodox medical practitioner, it would be very far from the truth to assume that Christian Scientists entertain towards the members of the medical profession feelings that are in any way hostile or disrespectful.
I commend to your attention the abolition of the so-called bucket-shop, or in other words, of the misuse of market quotations as a basis for public gambling.
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of the most common beliefs about Christian Science on the part of the uninformed, and the charge most frequently made against it by its critics, is that its work of healing from sin and disease is nothing but the action of one human mind upon another.
with contributions from Streeter, Hollis, Henry M. Baker, Archibald McLellan, Josiah E. Fernald, Fred C. Demond, Mary Baker G. Eddy, Frank S. Streeter, Fred N. Ladd, Arthur P. Morrill
Through the courtesy of The Concord Patriot we are able to print below a copy of the intervening petition filed by Streeter & Hollis in the Superior Court for Merrimack County, at Concord, N.