Article February 9, 1907 Issue

The people at large are just practical enough to want...

Jamestown (N. Y.) Journal

The people at large are just practical enough to want what is best. In the minds of the vast majority of men it is a question as to what is best. With all the tumbling about of medicine in each of its schools and in every decade, and its division into several warring schools, are the medical professions ready to say that they are right? If so, which school of medicine is right? Would it not be better for the schools of medicine to first agree among themselves before they arrange a campaign against religious sects that practise healing?

The writer personally knows of many cases of diseases that are regularly scheduled by physicians as incurable, that have been healed by Christian Science where the doctors have unqualifiedly given them up; and the writer knows that certain local physicians know all about the final healing of some of those cases, and that was why it was indicated in a former part of this article that some physicians would know that they would not be acting commendably if they endeavored to secure legislation to cut off healing by religious methods. What would the doctors have to say to a legislative committee when confronted by the facts of these religious successes after medical failures? . . . If the medical men think they can show that the "practices" of Christian Scientists are inconsistent with the peace and safety of the State, they may stand some chance of getting a "corner" on the treating business, but probably not before the time when the several schools of medicine get into one fold and heal cases such as the spiritual healers cannot cure.

Will not people be better pleased to hear no more of movements on the part of physicians to legislate on this subject of healing? Every person should be free—and he is free—to choose how he will treat, if he practise healing, and each person should be left free to choose—and he is left free to choose—which treatment he will have when he is ill or in anywise suffering.

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