Article November 2, 1912 Issue

Dr. Harvey H. Wiley, in a recent address reported in the...

W. C. Williams

Baltimore (Md.) Star

Dr. Harvey H. Wiley, in a recent address reported in the Star, accused Christian Scientists of opposing pure food measures. With due respect to this gentleman, we beg to say that the accusation is not founded on fact. Christian Scientists are advocates of purity in every respect; pure food, pure surroundings, pure thoughts, and pure lives; and that they are trying to attain thereto, naturally results in a continuous betterment of their condition. They are in favor of any means which will help to make pure food and pure everything more general. A notable example of their own effort in this direction is in their contribution to pure journalism, the publication of The Christian Science Monitor, which has already become a world newspaper.

The critic's further statement that "Christian Science may cure diseases that do not exist, but cannot cure any real disease," is another evidence of the way even big men will blind themselves to the facts. From the Christian Science standpoint the only real is the eternal, therefore all disease in that sense is unreal; but I should like to give a few facts regarding cures through Christian Science treatment of diseases that were as real as diseases can be taken from an article by the editor of the Broadway Magazine, written after an investigation by him in New York, a few years ago, as to the healing power of Christian Science.

Records that were examined showed 13,876 cases treated by Christian Scientists in the state of New York. Of this number, 11,244 patients acknowledged definitely that they were either completely cured or permanently benefited by Christian Science, 4,895 of these having either been given up by physicians or despaired of receiving relief from medical treatment; the 2,632 cases remaining were still under treatment. Many cases of each of the following diseases were included in those healed: rheumatism, tuberculosis, stomach trouble, heart disease, rupture, tumors, Bright's disease, appendicitis, locomotor ataxia, cancer, asthma, pneumonia, blood-poisoning, cerebro-spinal meningitis, paralysis, diabetes, typhoid fever, epilepsy, membranous croup, insanity, paresis, and chronic bronchitis. The names of the physicians attending and diagnosing the cases, prior to treatment by Christian Science, included many of the most prominent surgeons and specialists in America, as well as in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Gottingen, and Stockholm. The number averaged about five physicians to each case.

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