To our Co-workers

Editor

The workers at headquarters cannot be your Conscience. They cannot settle matters which only you can settle. They cannot make atonement for you. Christian Science does not teach the doctrine of a substituted salvation, but it teaches the true Scriptural doctrine that each must work out his own salvation,—aided as he is by helps innumerable, if he will only recognize and avail himself thereof.

Will you not realize, dear brethren, that in appealing to persons at headquarters you are placing reliance upon person instead of divine Principle? on man instead of on God?

It is true, that there are certain things you may properly submit, but it is also true that there are scores of things written to headquarters which the workers here can do nothing about. They have neither the knowledge nor the authority to act; and if they had, it would, in the great majority of cases, be unwise and inexpedient to undertake to act, for they relate to matters that only those immediately concerned, can possibly adjust.

If our readers will be more careful to read the standing notice on the last page of the Sentinel, they will save themselves, and those at headquarters, much inconvenience, trouble, and sometimes delay, as to the ordinary business part of the work; and if our co-laborers will more carefully study the teachings of the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in its direct application to the working out of individual problems, and will also keep well up with the Church Manual, carefully regarding it, they will be enabled to walk the strait and narrow way under divine guidance rather than human.

In connection with the above we will again say that the editor of our periodicals has nothing to do with cards, church notices, or other matters connected with the Publisher's Department, except as specially provided in the Church Manual. His duty and authority relate only to the reading matter proper.

He is led to say this because he is in constant receipt of letters based on the assumption that he is familiar with every detail of business connected with our publications. Our friends must remember that the Publisher and the Board of Trustees have duties to perform, peculiarly their own, and entirely apart from the Editorial Department.

Three lengthy letters from a western city have just been received, addressed to the editor personally, relating to matters of which he had never heard and knew nothing whatever. Every moment of his time is needed in his own departments of labor.

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