Article March 21, 1908 Issue

Your interesting article on Japan in the issue of Jan....

Albert E. Miller

Pittsburg (Pa.) Press

Your interesting article on Japan in the issue of Jan. 19. attempts to draw a rather labored comparison between a certain superstition of the Japs and the religion known as Christian Science in our own country. The parallel you seek to make is recognized by all who understand Christian Science to be no parallel at all.

All mankind is constantly seeking a panacea for its ills. The medical beliefs of one country may be rejected by the inhabitants of another country as futile and impractical. The medical discoveries of to-day may be. after experiments and trials, thrown aside as worthless to-morrow; and so on. Why. then, should Christian Scientists be regarded as irrational in seeking to know God aright, and to lay hold on a practical understanding of man's relationship to God as a means of curing disease? Christian Science brings forth marvelous results in effecting the physical and moral regeneration and reform of practically all who give it study and application. While in a degree Christian Science is subjected to some measure of abuse by those who misunderstand it, the advocates of this faith show a multitude of good works as their justification for continued adherence.

What this has to do with the Japanese people praying to their idols for relief from pain is hard to find, and the suggestion that one is reminded of Christian Science and its revered Leader, Mrs. Eddy, by this Japanese process of cure seems rather far-fetched. Your readers need hardly be reminded that Christian Science represents the outgrowth of intelligent and devout Christian effort and discovery, while paganism in any form is unchristian and unintelligent bondage to ignorant belief and tradition.

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