Article June 16, 1917 Issue

The chief error which our critic's letter reveals is a...

Thorwald Siegfried

Friday Harbor (Wash.) Journal

The chief error which our critic's letter reveals is a consistent failure to distinguish between cleanliness and medicine. Cleanliness which is not satisfied with merely washing the outside of the platter, but which insists as well on cleanliness of thought and motive, is doing much for the health of the world; and Christian Scientists, whose prime activity includes the promotion of that cleanliness, do not use medicine at all. If we were wholly clean we would be both healthy and holy, and the inefficiency of medicine to make us healthy is revealed in the fact that it does not pretend to make us holy. No drug has yet been devised that is capable of removing or is designed to remove from the human mind lusts and fears, from which all diseases are generated, and it is a safe statement that no such drug will ever be discovered, because matter is incapable of producing any permanent effect upon the human mind, to which it owes its very existence.

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