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The Tribune
May I reply briefly to an editorial in which you express the opinion that Christian Scientists should be compelled by law to qualify as medical practitioners before being allowed to practise their religion for the benefit of the sick? This opinion is, I believe, based upon the untrue assumption that there is some sort of medical supervision over people upon the part of Christian Science practitioners. The fact is that those who go to Christian Science for help, get no medical treatment of any kind, and they are advised by Christian Scientists that whenever there is a suspicion of communicable disease they should consult a regular physician and see that all the health regulations are observed. They call upon physicians for such diagnosis when necessary, even more punctiliously than does the average citizen, and the health records of the state prove this fact.
Those who have exercised their constitutional privilege to rely upon prayer as offered in Christian Science, and who have not, therefore, desired to rely upon drugs for healing, have not been, in all the years of successful Christian Science practice, the cause of spreading contagious disease or epidemics, nor have they subjected others to danger in this direction. It is due to Christian Science to state this, and the records of the health departments will bear it out, however much intentional or unintentional misrepresentation has been advanced to the contrary. At the same time, it may be observed that Christian Science churches, whose members are at least of average intelligence, who are well and happy and helpful members of the community, have sprung up broadcast to testify to the healing efflcacy of the Principle to whom the prayers are offered.

August 21, 1915 issue
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Teaching in the Sunday School
REV. JAMES J. ROME
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"The great commandment"
RALPH B. SCHOLFIELD
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Man's Heritage of Joy
LOUISE KNIGHT WHEATLEY
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Supply Spiritual
FRANCES A. HALDANE
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Christian Science and the Jew
ISRAEL GITTELSON
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"Ever with me"
ADELA V. SCRIMGEOUR
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The sermon on "Christian Science and Christian Logic,"...
Judge Clifford P. Smith
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A recent issue, reporting the sermon of an evangelist holding...
W. D. Kilpatrick
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I would like to state that the object of my letter in...
J. Arnold Haughton
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A few days ago an item appeared in your paper which...
Robert S. Ross
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A Religion of Work
Archibald McLellan
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"Know thyself"
Annie M. Knott
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Following the Trail
John B. Willis
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The Lectures
with contributions from Francis O. Cass, John E. Lautner, A. P. Sharp, Charles Nickoll, J. A. C. Fraser, C. C. Hearnsberger, John Brown, Alvin Hunsicker
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It is now over eight glad years since I first heard of...
Clara E. Snyder
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It is with a feeling of deep gratitude for the understanding...
Fannie L. Schulze
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Christian Science has cured members of four generations...
Thora B. Buchanan
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For some time I have desired to give my testimony of...
Jennie Hardin Disney
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In the year 1911 my wife, who had been an invalid for...
George D. Burdett
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On Thanksgiving night, 1905, I was at a friend's house,...
Drucilla Hale Collar
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It is with a heart filled with gratitude that I wish to testify...
Friedrich Bergmann
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Christian Science came into my life at a time of great...
Louisa R. Ford
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From Our Exchanges
with contributions from R. J. Campbell, A. B. Curtis