Article November 30, 1907 Issue

In recent issues of your valued paper a Boston correspondent...

Willard S. Mattox

Philadelphia (Pa.) North American

In recent issues of your valued paper a Boston correspondent discusses the latest departure from orthodox Christianity instituted in a church in this city. In the course of his remarks he says that the new experiment is "like Christian Science only in so far as its results are achieved through mental suggestion."

This statement at once separates the methods of the church mentioned not only from Christian Science. but also from Jesus' practice, notwithstanding the fact that the system inaugurated at said church has been called christian therapeutics," and your correspondent says of its founders: "They cannot help feeling that they may have found a way of making the Christian religion as taught by the New Testament somewhat the factor in the life of these days that it was in apostolic times."

If it be true that the church referred to believes its methods to be similar to the apostolic methods of healing, then the modus operandi in the present instance should be so nearly like the methods and practice of Jesus and his apostles as to be easily identified. Upon examination, however, the methods employed in this church do not seem to be reminiscent of Christian healing. Your correspondent says that applicants for treatment are "first examined by one of the advising physicians." Imagine Jesus accompanied by a retinue of expert neurologists, who examined the multitudes and decided upon the type of the disease, permitting Jesus to heal only such patients as were found to be suffering "wholly or in part from functional nervous disorders!"

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