Article March 8, 1913 Issue

As wit is generally merciless, we can understand why the...

W. C. Williams

Baltimore (Md.) Sun

As wit is generally merciless, we can understand why the Free Lance uses ridicule for sharpening its points; but as every one is not familiar with the reason for it, and as ridicule often deters those interested in learning the truth from investigation, I ask the privilege of straightening out a few of the statements regarding Christian Science in a recent article in the Evening Sun.

Although in deference to Mr. Mencken we do not like to bring religion into the argument, yet it is inevitable, as we claim Christian Science is simply the exemplification of the law of God. As its basis is the spiritual, its followers do not "go vivisecting patients and gaping into microscopes," but they do not ridicule the earnest believers in those methods, nor belittle their "endless effort" to help mankind. Christian Scientists have not declared that they know anything about such methods or their results, except when specially brought to their attention, and Christian Scientists would not see the benefit of working from a material basis, since they deal, as stated before, essentially with the spiritual and the mental.

The doctrine of Christian Science is not that the laws of nature can be changed by human volition; on the contrary, it states that as God is Spirit, the only natural laws are spiritual laws, and that these are immutable. These laws do not cause sickness, but overcome it. We should assuredly retrograde rather than progress, if man's physical expression controlled him; if the mortal dominated, immortality would be a myth.

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