Editorial August 16, 1913 Issue

WHY DISCRIMINATE?

Archibald McLellan

The different light in which coroners view the many deaths under medical treatment which come to their attention, and an occasional death under Christian Science treatment, is aptly shown in a statement to the New York Sun by the Christian Science committee on publication for that state, from which we quote as follows:—

Just recently the New York city papers gave prominent notice to the statement that the coroner of Yonkers was looking for some grounds upon which to procure an indictment against the parents of a sixteen-year-old boy who dies of tuberculosis while under Christian Science treatment. The coroner had held office throughout the preceding year, during which one hundred and twenty persons had died of the same disease in Yonkers, all quite unnoticed by this official. It also appears that two other children of these parents had died from tuberculosis under medical treatment, and the coroner took no notice.

If if were a fact that Christian Science had not healed a single case of tuberculosis, or of any so-called serious disease, there might be some reason for the discrimination thus made by a public official; but such is not the case, and the person who today still persists in the belief that Christian Science is not a reliable healing agency, is simply writing himself down as one who is not abreast with the times. In illustration of this, let us go back ten years, when a similar case was on trial in the Los Angeles (Cal.) court. Among the several withnesses examined under oath were prominent professional and business men, who testified to having been healed through Christian Science treatment, after medical treatment had failed to cure them, of stomach, kidney, and heart trouble, nervous prostration, insomnia, spinal trouble, etc., also three cases of lung trouble. From two of these testimonies we give the following brief extracts:—

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