Article September 19, 1908 Issue

At last there has come out from the army of noble physicians...

Elyria (Ohio) Chronicle

At last there has come out from the army of noble physicians one who dares to admit that the healing method followed by Christian Science practitioners has proved to be a curative agency in the matter of the treatment of disease. Dr. R. C. Cabot, a physician who stands high in his profession as a gentleman and a scholar, has in magazine letters given Christian Science all the credit, in his opinion, that belongs to it. He will only admit that this Science cures functional and nervous ailments,—a very good admission,—though he draws the line at organic diseases, and like the doubting Thomas or the man from Missouri, he wants to be shown before he will believe. One would think that the doctor ought to be better informed on what Christian Science can do. He ought to be possessed of facts to show him that there are thousands of people in the United States standing to-day as living monuments of the great healing power of this teaching. These people, snatched from the jaws of death, having been given up by physicians as incurables, as a last resort went to practitioners, and were healed by the simple prayer of faith in God as understood in Christian Science. Abundant testimony verifies the statement that there is not a disease in the whole long list known to the medical fraternity that has not been cured by Christian Science treatment. Possibly Dr. Cabot does not want to make too great an admission at the present time, for it is not long since medical men declared that Christian Science could not cure anything,—that it was a humbug, a fad,—and called for one case that Christian Science had cured.

Dr. Cabot tries to make a point in stating that Christian Scientists cannot diagnose cases, and therefore are not able to treat them as successfully, but this does not seem to stand in the way of Scientists doing good work in the healing of disease. They do not pretend that they can diagnose disease after the manner of physicians, but their method of healing does not call for such diagnosis. In the face of the fact that there are many cases on record of the curing of tuberculosis and locomotor ataxia by Christian Science, the doctor says that he is skeptical on this point because he has not been able to locate one patient who was cured of either one of the diseases mentioned by the Christian Science method. If the doctor will attend Wednesday evening testimonial meetings in any large city, he will hear people tell of being cured of the diseases mentioned as well as of other organic ills. The doctor's articles are very fair, however, as a whole. He is willing to give Christian Science credit for the health and happiness that is evidenced in the lives of its adherents.

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