Article July 13, 1912 Issue

Your courteous editorial reference to the recent prosecution...

Jno. M. Dean—Memphis, Tenn.

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Your courteous editorial reference to the recent prosecution of a Christian Scientist in New York for practising medicine without a license should remind us that under such laws Jesus and the apostles would have been required to exhibit a medical license before healing the sick by the purely spiritual means which they employed. Iamgine, if you can, Jesus the Christ taking a course in a medical college before he could go about his "Father's business"! Such sacrilege is unthinkable, and yet the political doctors of our day do not hesitate to attempt the enforcement of such views upon those who are simply trying to obey the Scriptural command, "Heal the sick."

Christian Scientists have great respect for the noble practitioners of the medical school, and only take issue with that active minority of the profession which seems afraid to stand on its merits and is constantly seeking to abridge the rights of others. This tendency is more or less active all over the country today and is culminating in the present agitation for a national department of medicine which is intended to create a medical monopoly. No one objects to the doctors' regulating the practise of medicine to suit themselves; it is only when they attempt to apply their rules to others that objection is made. A proven system of medical practise needs no monopolistic laws to protect it, and certainly until the infallibility of some given system has been demonstrated no special governmental recognition should be given it.

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