Editorial March 13, 1909 Issue

PRACTICAL PROGRESS

Archibald McLellan

There has recently come to our notice, through a friend, a letter written by a prominent citizen of Spokane, Wash., in which he speaks as follows of a recent visit to Olympia, the state capital:—

"It will be of interest to our dear Leader to know that we find a large majority in the House and Senate who acknowledge that Christian Science is both Christian and scientific. Some are students, some have wives who are students, and very many have dear friends who have been healed. So it is; and the doctors recognize this, and they now admit the time has gone by when they can hope to pass in this state any legislation which is adverse to Christian Science."

So much for the attitude on the Pacific coast. From conservative New England come equally cheering reports, for in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts proposed medical legislation which would be adverse to the practice of Christian Science has been defeated within the past few months; in fact, we know of no state in which anything has been accomplished this year by those who would, if they could, compel the afflicted to do as did King Asa, whose experience, when "in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians," is so graphically sketched in the chronicles of the kings.

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