Article January 23, 1909 Issue

In the Evening Dispatch of Friday there appear two...

E. M. Ramsay

Edinburgh (Scot.) Dispatch

In the Evening Dispatch of Friday there appear two short paragraphs announcing and commenting on the alleged discovery by Professor Laurent of a new method of curing cancer. Does it not seem more natural and reasonable to suppose that every disease could be cured did we but know enough, than to suppose that some illnesses are essentially incurable? We cannot admit that anything which is truly desirable is unattainable; the very desire for good is the promise of its fulfilment, though the time and the method of that fulfilment may at the present moment be hidden from human ken. In the first paragraph to which we have alluded the writer proceeds to warn the public against quack cancer cures, and attacks faith-healing and Christian Science as mere quackery. In a sermon preached by the Rev. R. J. Campbell, of the City Temple, on the 15th of this month, he says:—

"When there is so much evil-doing in the world, why should we waste so much time as we commonly do in attacking those who are in earnest about doing good? One of the saddest and least admirable things about average human nature is the intensity with which it will oppose the efforts of those who are doing good in an unaccustomed way, while allowing sheer wickedness to pass comparatively unnoticed. You all know that at this present time, just as with previous ages, the people who stir up the fiercest antagonisms are seldom those who are living right-down selfish lives and inflicting loss and sorrow upon their fellow-men, but those who are doing their best to help them, though doing it in ways which do not commend themselves to religious or political orthodoxy."

Christian Scientists are engaged in a war of extermination with sin, sickness, want, and woe. They accept Christ Jesus as the great Wayshower, believe that he meant what he said when he bade his followers heal the sick, and accept unreservedly his definition of illness as the work of the father of lies, which a right understanding of Truth will destroy. The success which Christian Scientist have met with in the treatment of disease has led many people to look into the subject, and this surely is natural enough. ... Christian Scientist believe that their method of healing the sick is the best method, and they confidently anticipate that before long the difference between things spiritual and things psychical will be clearly recognized by the public. An immense gulf separates the healing by divine Mind from the healing by human suggestion and will-power.

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