Article March 26, 1904 Issue

The question is asked why Christian Science could not...

Willard S. Mattox

Waterbury (Conn.) American

The question is asked why Christian Science could not inoculate people, if it can cure them. The question is a most important one, and I wish I could give the widest publicity to the answer. It is a self-evident proposition in physics and in metaphysics, that the same fountain cannot send forth both sweet waters and bitter. If Christian Science heals, it is morally and logically impossible for it to make sick or kill. If Christian Science practice is the cause which results in an effect called health, that cause can never be expected to manifest itself in such an opposite effect as disease. If the mind that heals can also tear down and destroy, what protection has the human race from such an eccentric, unreliable, and altogether evil mixture. It is undeniably true that Christian Science is the gospel, the practical, daily ministry of good-will, and this peaceful practice can never be wickedly perverted, for the moment an individual seeks, mentally or otherwise, to revenge himself and cause suffering, he ceases to be a Christian Scientist.

Willard S. Mattox.
Waterbury (Conn.) American.

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