Article July 2, 1904 Issue

Christian Scientists gladly recognize that a large majority...

Clarence A. Buskirk with contributions from Ruskin

Fort Wayne (Ind.) Journal

Christian Scientists gladly recognize that a large majority of the medical profession are good and intelligent men; but they look upon materia medica as based on materialism, knowing nothing of God in its doctrine and practice; that it deals with man as an animal rather than an immortal spiritual being; that it doctors effects and secondary causes; that it is empirical and not scientific, frequently changing its practices and theories; that it is on a false basis, since it ignores God and man's spiritual and immortal being.

Clarence A. Buskirk.
Fort Wayne (Ind.) Journal.

We shall find that the love of nature, wherever it has existed, has been a faithful and sacred element of human feeling; that is to say, supposing all the circumstances otherwise the same with respect to two individuals, the one who loves nature most will always be found to have more capacity for faith in God than the other.—Ruskin.

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