Editorial February 29, 1908 Issue

"TRUE HEALING."

Archibald McLellan

It is well known that a great many physicians have turned to Christian Science to be healed of diseases which their own skill could not overcome, also that not a few have sent some of their so-called incurable patients to practitioners of Christian Science, but it is not often that a physician in active practice voluntarily appears as the defender of a system which differs so radically from his own as does the new-old Christianity of which Science and Health is the text-book. In a letter which recently appeared in the columns of the Philadelphia North American, addressed to the editor, a Pennsylvania physician, Dr. E.A. Gates, says,—

It was not my privilege to read the editorial criticised by Doctor, Brav, but I have read his article, in which the doctor shows plainly that his criticisms are based, not on knowledge of both sides of the question, but upon the prevailing customs and prejudice, never a reliable foundation for an argument. The very fact that he confounds the ordinary religious and mental attempts at healing with Christian Science shows that he knows not whereof he speaks. If Doctor Brav would allow his mind to expand sufficiently to permit him to read Science and Health, trying, as he read, to grasp the subtle essence of the subject, he would perhaps be better qualified to express himself in regard to it.

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