Article August 27, 1910 Issue

I have read your editorial of March 31, in which you...

Edward W. Dickey

Fresno (Cal.) Republican

I have read your editorial of March 31, in which you suggest that a competent experimenter conduct a series of experiments to test Christian Science as a healing agent, said experiments to have "no bearing whatever on the merits of Christian Science as a religion," and I ask space in your valuable paper to give some reasons against the feasibility of such a step.

Christian Science Mind-healing is an indissoluble part of Christian Science as a religion. All healing done under the name of Christian Science is but an expression of the worship of God. This religion teaches, as the Bible declares, that "the prayer of faith shall save the sick," and all Christian Science healing is the result of prayer, or reliance upon the one infinite God. To lower this sacred practice to the level of a mere series of experiments along the lines of certain material methods now in vogue, would to the Christian Scientist be not only irreligious but sacrilegious.

There is a far better and more satisfactory way, from the standpoint of human progress, to test the efficacy of Christian Science healing than by resorting to a series of material or mortal mind experiments. Witness, if you please, the million or more intelligent men and women who have been healed of all manner of disease and reclaimed from all forms of sin. An experiment, no matter what its character or its duration, pales into insignificance in comparison with this majestic achievement. The volume of Christian Science healing is so great that any one who so desires may satisfy himself of the verity thereof. This is the "experiment" Christian Scientists invite the world to behold, and to ponder its deep significance.

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