Article October 16, 1909 Issue

Christian Science teaches only respect for the honorable...

Jesse Pickard

Buffalo (N. Y.) Enquirer

Christian Science teaches only respect for the honorable physician, however much it disagrees with his method of trying to help sick humanity. If the works of Christian Science have helped the public to understand that they may reasonably seek relief in a spiritual, rather than in a material way, this should not be construed as an attack upon the medical profession. Christian Scientists carefully accord to others personal liberty of thought and action, and seek to demonstrate that Christian Science ensures them the personal liberty of health and righteousness.

In their avowed intention to follow Christ, and to heal the sick as well as reform the sinner through prayer alone, Christian Scientist have never professed to understand the practice of medicine. Your contributor is, therefore, wrong in calling them "quack doctors." His further statements that "Christian Scientists have no scientific remedy for the disease they attempt to cure," and that "they try to remove an effect without intelligently studying the cause," are adequately refuted by the definiteness and the permanency of Christian Science healings.

Christian Science practice is none the less scientific nor analytical because it is wholly mental. If the good results of such accurate thinking have been unlooked for, they should be the more gladly welcomed.

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