Article March 14, 1903 Issue

Interesting News from Harrisburg, Pa.

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A Bill was recently introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, the purport and aim of which seemed to be the prohibition of the practice of healing by any other methods than those of medicine and surgery. A public hearing was given before the committee to which it was referred, and the plea and protest of Christian Scientists and others was heard. Representative Ray, the sponsor for the bill, withdrew it soon after and substituted therefor a measure applying simply and exclusively to the practice of medicine and surgery. We give below, extracts from some of the addresses which were made in opposition to the bill, our clippings being taken from the Philadelphia American.—ED.

Charles H. Fahnestock, First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Philadelphia, said in part:—

"Methods of treating diseases by materia medica in our boyhood, are obsolete to-day, and the methods in vogue today will probably be discarded a few years hence. Treatises on disease and their remedies are multiplying so rapidly that the standard works of to-day are old almost to-morrow. The whole system is admittedly largely empirical. Every medical practitioner in every case reaches the point of which confession must be made that nothing more can be done but to trust in God. The Christian Scientist claims the inherent right to trust in God from the start.

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