Article April 16, 1904 Issue

There is a vast difference between practice based upon...

Willard S. Mattox

Hartford (Conn.) Courant

There is a vast difference between practice based upon blind faith alone, and practice founded upon a demonstrable, scientific knowledge. An appeal to facts, that is to say to results, commends itself to the rational judgment of thinkers. Christian Science rests its appeal upon facts, upon what it has accomplished in its curative practice. The healing in Christian Science flows from a precise and definite knowledge of the Principle of existence,—the changeless, underlying laws of being. It is this certain and provable understanding which differentiates Christian Science from all other systems of healing without drugs or material methods, and which separates it from a practice based only on the hope of cure, without a scientific understanding as to how that cure is effected. It should be understood that not every system which claims to heal without material medicine is Christian Science.

Appealing to facts, we find from vital statistics, that the children of Christian Scientists are as well cared for as others who employ drugs in maintaining the health of their children. Christian Science parents should not be judged harshly because they rely upon what they have proved to be a satisfactory and safe method of healing. In many instances these same parents have previously tried other methods, and have not found them wholly adequate. Thus they are competent to judge of the relative advantages of both systems.

Willard S. Mattox.
Hartford (Conn.) Courant.

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