Article February 21, 1901 Issue

Scientists win a Victory

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis, Mo., February 6,—A special to the Post Dispatch from Jefferson City, Mo., says:—

It is announced that as a result of the hearing given last night by the joint committee on ways and means of the House and Senate to prominent Christian Scientists the public health committee will strike out those paragraphs of the Hull medical bill which are objectionable to them.

The Hull Bill provides for the establishment of a state medical board which shall pass on the qualifications of all applicants for medical practice, and requiring each to have served a two-year course at a duly recognized medical college.

Further, it is specified that "all persons professing to heal the sick or afflicted" must undergo this examination. The Christian Scientists based strenuous objections to this clause on the ground that it would restrict their religious belief.

At the hearing last night probably one thousand Christian Scientists from St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph, and other parts of Missouri were present. The most prominent of these presented their arguments against the provision in the bill which they said was inimical to their faith.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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