Article April 8, 1911 Issue

I returned from a tour in Canada and the States on...

Col. G. Napier—London, England.

Sunday Times

I returned from a tour in Canada and the States on Wednesday last, and on Sunday saw the letters on Christian Science in your issue of that day. It was hard to believe that the letters of Prof. Hiram Maxim and the medical men who share his views could have been written seriously. May I suggest to them that it is too late to deny Christian Science. In every city and town of Canad and the United States of America of over, say, ten thousand inhabitants, there are churches and a growing community. To judge by their appearance, these congregations include all sorts—the hard-headed and the hard-handed—women and men, in fairly equal proportions. In every English-speaking country the same phenomenon is to be seen. Can it be doubted that the thought of vast and growing numbers of the world's leading race must have a decided and decisive effect on the direction of the world's affairs?

A present attitude of incredulity is unworthy of reasonable men. I remember that many years ago an Amir of Cabul, traveling for the first time by train, refused to believe that he was going forty miles an hour. After some time he asked the distance between telegraph posts and then, calculating, exclaimed, "Mashallah! It is true!" An aborigine of central China on my Cunard boat would see nothing of the Marconi—would not know that he was linked with the unseen continents—a message received would be still incomprehensible, but—a fact! Let M.D.'s and professors abandon their attitude of denial and incredulity for one of acceptance and investigation. When they see pain endured that they think material means might mitigate, let their feeling be one at least of sympathy and respect, and let them say with the Roman centurion, watching the sufferings of Christian martyrs, "These people must have something they value more than life."

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