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Clergymen and Physicians
A very striking but entirely explicable phase of the irrepressible conflict between the spiritual and the material has presented itself in a rather undignified interchange of condemnatory compliments between some of the prominent ministers and the equally prominent physicians of one of our cities. The charge made by a clergyman that the moral atmosphere and influence of a certain medical institution is unwholesome, is answered by the claim that "Christianity is not words or creeds, but a life," that physicians are devoting their energies to practical work in aid of humanity, while clergymen are doling out undermonstrated theories, etc.
In reply to this, a minister gives expression to a point of view which clearly differentiates the modern from the Apostolic church. He says, "The doctor is doing God's work, and deserves a high reward, but at a certain point his work ceases, and that point is where the physical wants of his patient end and the spiritual needs begin. Then comes our work, and we do a lot of it." This conviction that it is not the business of preachers to heal the sick, but that, while it is "God's work," it is properly committed to those who may or may not have the spiritual motive and unblemished life which has always been exacted of the ministry, — this as we think, fairly represents the attitude which has been, and is still maintained by the great majority of Christian clergymen. A technical knowledge of the human anatomy and its diseases, and of some system of therapeutics, has always been exacted of physicians, but while they include many earnest Christian men, we do not recall that a high order of spiritual attainment has ever been demanded of them; nevertheless if their work be "God's work," it certainly becomes godly men, and they only are fitted for its doing; and it is most astonishing that this has not been seen long since.

May 28, 1904 issue
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The Use or Misuse of Time
SAMUEL GREENWOOD.
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Reflection
ALICE HAMMOND.
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A Floral Lesson
JULIA WALKER STANYAN.
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The Thrush's Song
MARGARET B. AYRES.
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Regarding Evil
Willard S. Mattox
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Christian Scientists take the whole promise of immunity...
Charles E. Skinner
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Christian Science classifies the spiritual as the real and...
Clarence A. Buskirk
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The Lectures
with contributions from A. E. Van Ostrand, E. E. Keech, William B. Hanna, Allen Andrews
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MRS. EDDY TAKES NO PATIENTS
Editor
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Letters to our Leader
with contributions from Lida S. Stone, Edward A. Merritt, Matilda H. Merritt, Amelia E. Battelle, Mary E. Eaton, Lizzie P. Ordway, John W. Hendricks
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I should be very happy if the story of my healing by...
George Weimer
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Had I understood these beautiful words from our Christian Science Hymnal...
Mabel Simonds Myers
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Wishing to add my testimony to many others, I would...
William Willis
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Having received so much help through Christian Science...
Hermia J. Lockner
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I would like to tell of an incident that happened to...
E. A. Rothwell
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For a number of years I was a slave to the demon of...
G. W. Stewart
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In September, 1899, I first heard of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...
Emma Maxwell Padget
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The other day my little girl, aged six, was overheard...
Sarah Dilworth
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Notices
with contributions from Stephen A. Chase