Article June 15, 1899 Issue

The Boston Traveler

The following extract from a recent issue of the Boston Traveler shows how the fair-minded newspapers of the country are endeavoring to present the subject of Christian Science in its true light.

If Christian Science emerges from the current attacks made upon its truth, the legal right of its practice, and generally its power for good or evil, with its head above water, if you will—and every Christian Scientist is confident that such will be the outcome of the present denunciation—it will have passed through one of the most critical chapters in its career.

The great cry of the believers of Christian Science of to-day is that they are misrepresented. Surely in the past much injustice has been brought about to new sects or new religious movements by misrepresentation, and perhaps it is only fair to premise that the movement under discussion will receive its share of contumely. Naturally, it behooves all to understand the nature of Christian Science before seeking to attack it from a standpoint on which we may possibly find later we cannot logically maintain ourselves. Those who profess an acquaintance with the teachings and doctrines of the sect claim that much of the treatment of to-day, notably in New York and Brooklyn, declared to be carried on by members of their body, in fact is the work of fanatics, massage healers, sorcerers, or charm curists. Such cases must of course be eliminated in the consideration of the cases where death has resulted from Christian Science treatment.

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