Article December 8, 1917 Issue

My comment has been requested on a letter appearing in...

Judge Clifford P. Smith

Pocatello (Idaho) Tribune

My comment has been requested on a letter appearing in the Pocatello Tribune, in which a medical doctor made a verbal assault on Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. It merely rehashed certain perversions of half truths and certain entire falsehoods which have been put forward and refuted times without number. Not truthful when first offered for public acceptance, nor truthful in any of their various forms, such falsehoods and perversions of half truths have not become truthful by repetition, but they have become more and more discreditable to the persons who continue such wanton vilification. The same stuff, in the past as in the present instance, has been pressed upon the public, not by fair or disinterested persons, but by professional opponents whose bias was and is a sufficient reason why their accusations should be examined most cautiously.

The conclusive comment on the letter in question is that evil speaking against such a person as Mary Baker Eddy is annulled by the incontestable good she has done. Christ Jesus laid down the final rule for testing all prophets or teachers of religion in the words, "Ye shall know them by their fruits." Now everybody knows, and even the most callous opponents do not deny, that Christian Science has been and is a wonderful and effective influence for good in the lives of a great multitude of people. In view of this fact Mrs. Eddy made a pertinent and sufficient reply to her accusers when she said, "He who first brings to humanity some great good, must have gained its height beforehand, to be able to lift others toward it" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 338).

The writer of the letter in question was rash enough to make in your columns the public imputation that the adherents of Christian Science cannot produce sworn testimony that it has cured organic disease. A rasher challenge could hardly be imagined. The fact is that Christian Scientists have produced testimony of the kind described whenever an occasion for doing so has arisen. The last three of such occasions arose in 1916, and the evidence then adduced proved such healings beyond question.

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