Editorial November 11, 1905 Issue

"By their fruits"

Archibald McLellan

Those who are asking the question, Why is the Christian Science denomination growing at such a rapid rate? will find an answer in the experience of Dr Wilding of Manchester, England, which he details in a letter to the Daily Dispatch of that city. He writes, —

"My own experience ... is decidedly in favor of Christian Science as against medicine, and I write as a man who for nearly thirteen years was a general medical practitioner. Under the very best that medicine and surgery had to offer, my daughter, suffering from tubercular disease (joints and lungs), was slowly and steadily dying five years ago, losing weight and strength daily, and it is due to nothing else than Christian Science that I am able to say she lives to-day a healthy, strong girl. This case would have been a failure under medicine, but has proved a success under Christian Science.

"Again, under medicine a patient of mine was certainly, and in much suffering, going down to her grave, with valvular disease of the heart, and complications. This case also — a would-have-been failure in medicine — became a complete success under Christian Science. Surgery had nothing better to offer a young man, who had disease of the bones of the knee joint, than excision of the diseased bones and joint; thereafter, at best, a stiff, shortened limb. Naturally we would have accepted this measure of success as a very good thing. Yet under Christian Science treatment this man retains the whole joint in a perfect, healthy, and active condition.

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