Article April 2, 1910 Issue

The question has been asked by a critic, why Christian Scientists...

Frederick Dixon

London Medical Times

The question has been asked by a critic, why Christian Scientists do not start a hospital for demonstrating Christian Science healing on a large scale. May I say, therefore, without any offense, that Christian Scientists do not think that the gathering together of sick people under a single roof would be in any way advantageous to the patients. Our critic would admit, I am sure, that the mind of the patient plays a very important part in healing; consequently, to collect numbers of people together, and subject them to the constant depression resulting from the unbroken contemplation of sickness all about them, is a process which no Christian Scientist would regard as either wise or desirable. Christian Science healing is based entirely upon the Bible. There were emphatically hospitals in the world before the Christian era, but the Founder of Christianity certainly never recommended the multiplication of them, and he did on more than one occasion command those whom he healed to tell no man, just as he commanded those who were present in the room in the case of Jairus' daughter, to leave him alone with the girl. To any one who understands what Christian Science healing aims at, the critic's idea, though perfectly natural to him, would be an impossibility.

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