WE
are devoting considerable space in this issue of the Sentinel to the defeat in the North Carolina Legislature of a bill, ostensibly for the regulation of the practice of medicine, but in fact for the prevention of the practice of Christian Science.
A late editorial in the Portland Oregonian which, while relatively courteous and kind, discloses the greatest misapprehension of the teachings of Christian Science, ends with the following lines which speak well for the impression that Christian Scientists are making upon the general public.
THE
oneness of Truth and the harmony existing between all its varied expressions is constantly suggested in the unconscious revelations of our inner life.
In
an age when things great and small, high and low, are being subjected to microscopic analysis, it is very natural that the question, What is the essential of religion?
It
is more and more apparent that the world is not satisfied with time-worn platitudes, but is demanding a religion adapted to its daily need, a religion which is removed as far as possible from purely perfunctory preaching.
The
defeat of the anti-Christian Science healing bill in the legislature of New Hampshire by a vote of 194 to 70 reveals the fact that American traditions are still strong in New England, and that religious and professional intolerance cannot find in the Granite State a lodgment in the statute book.