Article July 8, 1911 Issue

In a recent issue appears a letter signed "an Anti-Christian Scientist,"...

Alfred Farlow

Baltimore (Md.) American

In a recent issue appears a letter signed "an Anti-Christian Scientist," which makes the charge: "The practice of medicine requires by law four or five years' hard study and a thorough knowledge of materia medica and human anatomy. On the other hand, no technical education nor study is required for the practice of healing by Christian Science." While on this subject the gentleman should have made the point that if Christian Scientists can heal the sick after a brief study of the Bible and the Christian Science text-book as effectually as the M. D.'s do after a four-year medical course, Christian Science should be commended. It certainly saves a great deal of time and a great deal of strain, and it cannot be denied that Christian Science does heal the sick, since there are many persons alive and well today because of the redeeming power of Christian Science, who had failed to recover in other ways.

It cannot be denied, that the children of Christian Scientists are as healthy as the children of those who entertain other beliefs. It is said that a large percentage of the human race die in childhood. It is only necessary to deduct from this large number of children the few who have died under Christian Science treatment into order to determine the vast army of children which die under medical treatment, and thus it is shown that our veiled critic does not have to go outside of his own school of therapeutics to find ample ground for his criticism. And doubtless if he attempts to make a comparison, and it is the comparative value of Christian Science that the public desires to know, he will discover that, after all, Christian Science is the best latter-day method of curing sickness as well as sin. Christian Scientists may, indeed, be ignorant so far as medical diagnosis is concerned, but that they know a deal about the nature of disease is evidenced by their successful practice. They at least know something of the "good part" for which the Master commended Mary, and late experience is convincing that it behooves us to give more attention to the spiritual side of life, more attention to the cause of causes, to omnipotent God, who, above and beyond all material rules and regulations, has to do with the health and welfare of His creatures.

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