Article June 7, 1900 Issue

Unavailing Prosecutions

Opinions differ respecting the merits of Christian Science in the treatment of disease, but it is quite evident that prosecutions of Christian Science healers like that in progress at Topeka, Kan., must fail.

In all these prosecutions the charge is that the patient or patients died under the care of Christian Science practitioners, and that life would have been saved had regular physicians been summoned.

This proposition is manifestly incapable of proof. No judge or jury can say what would or would not have been the result of one treatment or another. It is pure guesswork, and law cannot be administered upon supposition. The courts of last resort would not sustain a judgment based upon such grounds. Therefore the Christian Scientists are safe from successful prosecution.

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