Article November 2, 1907 Issue

HEALTH RESTORED

SAMUEL DAVIS

In a somewhat recent issue of the Sentinel reference was made to the attitude of insurance companies toward Christian Scientists. An official of a large company once said to the writer that he was glad to have Christian Scientists apply for membership in his company. Other officials are known to consider them better "risks" than the average applicant because of the temperate habits and peace of mind common to Scientists. In recent years many have come to Christian Science from the ranks of insurance men; from all departments of the business, including executive officers, clerks, counsel, and solicitors or fieldmen. As their work requires them to meet new people constantly, insurance solicitors find many opportunities for dropping a word in season and aiding in the spread of the healing gospel.

Christian Science healing enabled the writer to gain admission to an insurance company after a considerable period of inability to comply with certain requirements as to physical condition. In my brief experience I have en-countered two other cases where Christian Science healing has overcome diseased conditions, so that the individuals thus healed were able to remove the effect of former rejections. After this healing they could meet successfully the severest tests required by the examiners. When the critics of Christian Science have questioned the correctness of the diagnoses of cases healed, I have often thought of these insurance cases. Here capable physicians are employed for the purpose of ascertaining if an applicant can satisfy certain standards of physical health. To learn his condition they employ all the means known to medical science, even resorting to the use of chemical reagents to discover any hidden symptoms of disease. When, therefore, entirely upon their own ground an applicant is pronounced physically whole, it would seem that this should be conclusive evidence of the efficacy of the Christian Science method of healing, even to the most insistent critic.

In this connection it will be interesting and significant to Scientists to learn that it is universally admitted in insurance circles that the benefit to the company of the medical selection, so called, which is secured at great expense by these examinations, is lost in the short period of five years. That is to say, in this as in other fields the physicians, though with the best intentions, are working in the dark. We are here reminded of Paul's words, "For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?"

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