Editorial January 22, 1903 Issue

"Though one Rose from the Dead"

Some time ago, so the story runs, a gentleman who was greatly astonished at the number of Christian Scientists whom he saw upon an occasion, asked, "Where have they come from?" and the answer was, "Most of them from the graveyard." We were reminded of the aptness of this answer when we read the testimony of the witnesses in the Reed case in this issue of the Sentinel One man testified under oath that twice he went to California in search of relief from "lung trouble," which later was pronounced consumption, that disease whose name alone has hastened its thousands to the grave. After several years of doctoring, his condition became such that his physicians advised him to return to his home in the East that he might "die among his relatives." While in this hopeless state he was induced to take Christian Science treatment. In six weeks he was able to resume his business, and had not lost a day on account of illness since that time, a period of three years and a half. As evidence of his restoration to health he stated that he had gained forty-five pounds in weight.

This man's case is but one of many, yet our critics have presumed to deny the efficacy of Christian Science, and have sought to interpose the strong arm of the law to prevent its practice. Fortunately for humanity, the days of sumptuary laws have passed, and legislative paternalism is on the wane.

If Christian Science were nothing more than a means of healing disease, its success would be evidenced by the testimony of any one of the three witnesses quoted in this issue, but the healing of sickness is only incidental to its great mission, the salvation of the race.

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