Editorial April 11, 1903 Issue

We are glad for the following sound and sensible comments...

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We are glad for the following sound and sensible comments respecting paternalistic legislation, from a cotemporary editor, even though he takes occasion to close with a rather uncomplimentary crack of his whip. We are confident our brother would hesitate to commend the use he has made of the word "cult," for the expression of Christian courtesy.—Ed.

"Much as legislators and judges may distruct or disapprove Christian Science, the American spirit of individualism, of unwillingness to interfere with personal matters so vital as religion and health, makes them disinclined either in their judicial rulings or in their laws to give such unqualified indorsement to the old school methods of dealing with disease as the New Hampshire legislator had in mind who introduced this proposed law, and still less to say that all faith healing or mind-cure dealing with disease. if it prove ineffectual, shall subject the healer to the charge of manslaughter. It is a step in the direction of paternalism which the American legislator is not ready to take yet, and will not until the practice of medicine becomes much less empirical than it now is. In saying this, of course, we but record a fact. We believe as firmly as ever in the enforcement of all laws of a sanitary sort in an impartial manner, and our opinion of Christian Science as a cult is no higher than it has been."

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