Article September 15, 1917 Issue

A magazine article upon Christian Science has come...

Sherburne County Star-News

A magazine article upon Christian Science has come to our attention, entitled "Christian Science under the X-ray," in which the writer in scathing terms seeks to prove that this cult, its tenets being unprovable by scientific test, is therefore "un-Christian and ridiculous." But wait. How many of the accepted facts of human and natural life are not to be proved by scientific analyzing? We hold no brief for Christian Science; but because we cannot place it under the X-ray and note its workings is no reason for passing it by with a sneer as "ridiculous."

Can any scientist explain exactly how a blade of grass, for instance, grows? They talk learnedly, of course, of the chemistry of the soil, the green coloring matter with a long name, and its conversion by the plant into stem and leaf, but how? What causes the plant to accomplish this transformation? The scientists are up against a stone wall. Another test. Can the greatest intelligence explain exactly how the words are conveyed hundreds of miles through the air in wireless telegraphy and picked up at the end? Sound waves, of course, but how and why? Until we can explain and dissect and X-ray facts like these we have no right to say that any belief, because not demonstrable by scientific test, is "ridiculous."

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