Article February 17, 1912 Issue

President Taft has revoked the order which barred Christian Scientists...

Riverside (Cal.) Enterprise

President Taft has revoked the order which barred Christian Scientists from treating sick people in the Panama Canal Zone. That was sensible. There may be many differences of opinion as to the merits of the respective schools of healing, but when a faith has hundreds of thousands of believers, and among them eminent men in all walks of life, it would be ridiculous for a government to ban its efforts to aid afflicted people.

Doctors disagree the earth over. More and more a puzzled and disappointed world turns away from the mere empirical and the specific cure to the great causes of disease and evil. More and more a cut-up population refuses to submit to the knife at the dictation of the experimental surgeon. A good doctor is the best friend a man can have. He is a pillar of strength, a rock in a weary land. When illness comes like a thief to steal the loved ones, when the specter of pain lays its heavy hand on one, or a new soul knocks at the portal of life, the true and tried physician is a minister of the creator, a conservator of being.

But there is no monopoly of knowledge nor of method. Today the allopath, the homeopath, the osteopath, the chiropractician—a half hundred members of physical schools dispute with the hundred variants of mind cures. There can be no doubt that a belief in Christian Science, and the efforts of its practitioners, has lifted thousands from sickbeds and from the slough of despond. As in the case cited by United States Senator Works, it has saved many from themselves, enabled the victims of drink and narcotics to abandon their habits and to be free and well men and women. That is warrant for allowing Christian Scientists to prescribe mentally for the ills of mankind, always reserving the rights of the majority under the law. There is room for all honest and intelligent efforts in the direction of health.

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