Article February 16, 1899 Issue

A Case for the Doctors

The following report in the New York Sun of December 31, of the cure of Rev. C. H. Holden, pastor of the Clinton Avenue Baptist Church in Detroit, comes perilously near a Christian Science cure. Those "fellow-pastors" should be prosecuted by the Old School physicians for unlawfully "practising medicine," for (if the report be true) they must have deprived some trembling doctor of a comfortable and long-continued income.

Concord, N. H. Justice.

Detroit, December 30.—The Rev. C. H. Holden, pastor of the Clinton Avenue Baptist Church on Field Avenue, lay on a bed in an upper room of his residence yesterday, his features drawn and wasted with great bodily suffering. Around him knelt a group of fellow pastors, lifting up their voices in earnest prayer, one after another, that God would restore to health and strength and service their brother who had been stricken. The voices were beginning to quiver and tears were flowing freely, when the Rev. Mr. Barlow, an aged preacher, arose from the kneeling circle, walked over to the sufferer, and cried: "Brother Holden, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I did you rise and walk."

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