Article April 15, 1916 Issue

I could read in the Eagle with perfect understandings Doctor...

Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eagle

I could read in the Eagle with perfect understandings Doctor—'s statement relating to the origin of disease, and I could realize also the absurdity (to him) of the quotations cited from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, because the best part of my life has been spent in the study of material science, especially of physiology and hygiene. I know the doctor's viewpoint, and also the irritating, almost maddening effect of the affirmations of Christian Scientists on a person holding his convictions.

Knowing all this, and having had the experience that I have had, I make this request of the doctor: Will he not, if possible, lay aside his objections, cease arguing over the letter of the text-book, and put Christian Science to a practical test. If it is a science, it must be demonstrable. If demonstrable, what then? If the critic is a true and fair scientist, he will be willing to judge Christian Science by what it can accomplish. It takes much courage and honesty to do this in the face of one's own opposition, but it is the only right way of procedure.

After my own experience, I feel perfectly safe in declaring that if the physicians who oppose Christian Science on the grounds of the absurdities in its text-book will observe dispassionately the effect mentally, morally, and physically of its teaching on the lives of its adherents; if, absurd as it may sound, they will put it into practice in their own lives, there can be but one result. If they are honest — and they are — they will have to admit that Christian Science works; that after all the laughter, indifference, and opposition, Christian Scientists, in spite of the seeming absurdities of their theories, have gotten hold of something that sets the erudition of physicians at naught ; that a movement has been started that can be stopped only by the followers themselves falling away from their standards, strange and absurd though these may seem to those outside their ranks, and that a key to health, success, and happiness has really been discovered.

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