George F. Barker
with contributions from MARY CLARK BARNES, F. W. BALDWIN
THE
distinctive Baptist doctrine of the separation of Church and State is in grave peril from certain tendencies that are developing in American churches and missionary societies; but those who see the peril are coming to a larger recognition of the validity of the doctrine.
To the Editor of the Sentinel: —On Thursday evening, July 13, the recently organized Medical and Legal Relief Society of the Metropolis, held a public meeting in the Waldorf-Astoria to consider the question of proposed legislation designed to protect the public from the practice of Christian Science.
THE
wise advice of Gamaliel to his brethern to let the Christian alone, was approved by the other Pharisees and it has been unanimously applauded for nearly nineteen centuries by theologians of all schools, but some of them depart from wisdom occasionally and bitterly attack Christian Science.
Dear Editor:— I send you a clipping from the New England Magazine which will fully explain to you what you are made of, and I have no doubt that you will be grateful to me for forwarding this information.
The
Wednesday evening meeting at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, this week, was such a demonstration of loyalty to Christian Science and its Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, that I feel impelled to send a report of it to the Field.