Editorial April 16, 1904 Issue

Healing Essential

We print in another column a letter from a minister of the Methodist Church, written after he had attended a Wednesday evening meeting in one of the churches of our denomination, and it is interesting to note the impression the meeting made upon him. He writes, "The truths I heard that night hover in the van of the race." "I have not heard saner testimonies in any meeting;" and of the people who comprise the congregation he writes, "Those who think Christian Scientists do not equal in intellectual measurement the other sects, have only a superficial knowledge of the subject."

These meetings were established that the public at large might learn of the practical and beneficial results of Christian Science practice, that suffering humanity might know that ours is indeed a gospel with signs following, and what this gentleman saw and heard is not different from what may be seen and heard by any unprejudiced person sufficiently interested to attend one of these meetings.

Mr. Whitford had an opportunity to see and talk with the persons who testified of their healing, and no doubt he was competent to judge, in a general way at least, of their health, and he seems to have been satisfied with the evidence presented, although some of our critics have disputed the value of such testimony because it is not accompanied by the certificate of a doctor of medicine. The contention of these critics is that Christian Scientists are without technical knowledge and therefore unable properly to diagnose disease; but they forget that the great majority of cases cited at these meetings are cases which were diagnosed by physicians and unsuccessfully treated by them before the patients turned to Christian Science and were healed.

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