Article October 3, 1914 Issue

Considerable publicity has been given the sermon on Christian Science...

Ezra W. Palmer

The Pueblo (Col.) Chieftain

Considerable publicity has been given the sermon on Christian Science by the Rev. Mr.—. In his preliminary announcements he promised to be candid in his discussion of Christian Science. The word candid, according to Webster's International dictionary, means "free from undue bias; disposed to think and judge according to truth and justice or without partiality or prejudice." Had the reverend critic done this, there would be no cause for objection. But judging from reports of his sermon, the critic proceeded to attack Christian Science with vehemence, going over many of the stock objections which have been exploded times without number in the past by its defenders.

To illustrate the hostile attitude of this critic, he is reported to have declared in his opening statements that he would "rejoice in all the good Christian Science can do." Later in his address he announced that he would require the affidavit of a physician to convince him that Christian Science had healed cancer. He is then reported to have enumerated a number of diseases which he did not believe Christian Science had ever healed. This incredulous and hostile attitude of mind does not speak well for the critic's ability to "judge according to truth and justice."

There is nothing reported in the critic's sermon or in his announcements in the press to indicate that he made any effort to discover the truth about the healing of cancer or other so-called incurable diseases by Christian Science. If he had candidly desired to know the facts about the genuineness of Christian Science healing, he could have found plenty of evidence in the city of Pueblo, and he would have discovered many well-known and reputable citizens who would have furnished abundant proof, sufficient to satisfy any unbiased investigator, regarding the authenticity of the healing of cancer, as well as other diseases, by this teaching. Instead of investigating data available at his very door, this critic chose to go into his pulpit and declare he did not believe. What value has his reiteration of disbelief? None whatever. It is on a par with the incredulity of the African chief who refused to believe that water could become solid, because he had never witnessed such a phenomenon.

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