Article November 7, 1908 Issue

With wide differences of opinion and uncertainty among...

Charles B. Jamieson—Manchester, N. H.

The Union

With wide differences of opinion and uncertainty among physicians with regard to diagnosis, the Christian Scientist, who trusts to God for his life and health, cannot be expected to rely or wait upon one diagnosis, which may be entirely different from that of another doctor of equal eminence and experience. The Christian Scientist makes his own diagnosis from a metaphysical basis, and not a physical one as does the physician, and is at least equally successful in practice. This spiritual method of healing the sick should not seem strange or unwise to professing Christians. On the contrary it should seem strange indeed that a community of church-going, God-loving Christian people should be "all agog," exercised with "feeling," filled with "indignation," and so "excited" as to call on the authorities because some well-known and respected members of that community had chosen to put their trust in God to practical application.

Christian Science is becoming so generally known and resorted to in cases of sickness that it is no longer an "unusual method of treatment." While there is an occasional failure to heal, the percentage of cures is grately in its favor. When there is a failure to cure under medical treatment, no "excitement of public sentiment" follows, but it is regarded as a regular matter-of-fact occurrence.

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