Editorial August 7, 1909 Issue

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND TEMPERANCE

Archibald McLellan

IN these days when so much is being said and done for the cause of temperance, the question, "What is Christian Science doing for temperance?" is frequently asked. It would seem sometimes that the inference sought to be conveyed by this question is that the Church of Christ, Scientist, as a religious organization, is doing nothing to promote the welfare of humanity along this line, because it has established no institutional method and undertaken no concerted movement to deal with this particular form of disease or sin. That such an inference cannot properly be drawn when the individual work that is being done daily by Christian Scientists is taken into consideration, is shown by the many testimonies of the healing of the liquor habit which are given at the Wednesday evening meetings and through the periodicals.

There have been thousands of such cases of healing, and as an example of the many testimonies to this effect we republish the statement made by W. P. Currigan of Denver, which appeared in a recent issue of the Sentinel (Vol. XI., No. 43, p. 856) as follows:—

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