Article December 18, 1902 Issue

The Treatment of Disease

George H. Kinter

Buffalo (N. Y.) Times

Mr. Editor:— Your comment upon my late letter encourages further correspondence upon the signification of the two terms "absent treatment" and "claim" as used in Christian Science. My considerate regard for your space prompted me, when writing you before, to be brief, but now I will endeavor to outline more minutely my meaning, hoping to make clear to you and to your readers, if you will publish my letter, our use of these words.

Your position is in part a laudable one. Mrs. Eddy once wrote, "I respect that moral sense which is sufficiently strong to discern what it believes, and to say, if it must, 'I discredit Mind with having the power to heal.' This individual disbelieves in Mind-healing, and is consistent." (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 223). Her words would apply exactly to you now.

You have conceded that "Christian Science as a firm, calm belief in the teachings of Christ, may be efficacious in the curing of diseases of a nervous character," and state that "many diseases of this kind are largely or purely imaginary," and in this you have really concluded the argument; for there is no class of diseases which so generally baffles the "regular schools" as this. If Christian Science could do nothing more than release the hysterical and hypochondriacal, that alone were sufficient reason for its existence.

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