Article October 16, 1909 Issue

I am not a Christian Scientist, nor a press agent for that...

Oakland (Cal.) Tribune

I am not a Christian Scientist, nor a press agent for that growing faith, but I have sometimes wondered why the newspapers are so chary about publishing the many Christian Science cures that everybody hears of except through the press. One evening paper has recorded the statement that Richard Jose, the singer, has been cured by Christian Science of a malignant cancer of the tongue. We all hear an abundance of evidence of similar cures of all sorts of ailments, but we do not see them in print except in Christian Science publications. Jose's case, however, is apparently authenticated, and it was told how he stood up in meeting and "testified" to the seeming miracle.A correction was made in the November 13, 1909 Sentinel: "In the Sentinel of Oct. 16 we published a clipping from the Oakland (Cal.) Tribune which stated that Richard Jose, the singer, had been healed in Christian Science of a cancer of the tongue. We have since been informed that this statement was incorrect, so far as Mr. Jose's being healed of this particular malady is concerned, but that he was healed of another serious ailment, and is in consequence deeply interested in Christian Science.—EDITOR."

I could fill half this page with accounts of the Christian Science cures that have been described to me. One of the latest is that of former Justice Garroutte, who, it is said, was condemned to death not long ago by three or four doctors in this city, who had him mewed in a hospital and diagnosed his ailment as cancer of the stomach. Garroutte said he did not want to die in a hospital, and so he was taken to his home in Berkeley, where a Christian Science healer was called in and soon made him well. The record might be continued almost indefinitely, and any one can add at least a few cases to the list. It makes a tale that is not quickly told, and in the mean time the Scientists here are increasing so fast that they are about to build a church that will be one of the finest structures in San Francisco.

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