Article June 4, 1910 Issue

It seems quite natural that mortals should think that...

James Phelps

Milwaukee (Wis.) Sentinel

It seems quite natural that mortals should think that those who hold a different view from that held by their own school, are poor, deluded people; and our critic is apparently no exception to the rule. He seems very much perturbed that our legislators cannot see through the specs used by his class of doctors; but sensible people are beginning to realize that the doctors are not the repositories of all knowledge, especially since they differ so radically among themselves and also because they fail so often to heal the people who trust them most implicitly.

No doubt it takes considerable breadth of mind in a physician not to feel chagrined when he sees Christian Scientists setting the so-called incurable on his feet; but our medical critic ought to know that what is deemed good theory and practice by the doctors of one generation is often discarded by the next. Christian Scientists have no objection to the doctors teaching the children of parents who believe in them, but they do insist on their constitutional rights to have something to say about the education of their own children, and it would certainly be a narrow mind which would attempt to deny this right

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