Article May 23, 1903 Issue

A Declaration of Rights

ALBERT E. MILLER

Reading (Pa.) Telegram

Mr. Editor.

In considering the rights and practices of the Christian Scientist, it should be borne in mind at all times that the believer in this teaching has had, as a rule, abundant experience with medicine, and it is this experience which prompts him to prefer Christian Science. He makes his choice through no sense of religious fanaticism, but because in his judgment Christian Science gives better results than medicine.

The time is rapidly approaching—if it is not already at hand—when the right of the Christian Scientist to reject the services of medical practitioners will be unquestioned. This will come as a natural result of progress. It is not altogether improbable that within a very few years the right to take or reject medicine will no longer be looked upon, even by those who prefer medicine, as a matter concerning which there can be any question.

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