Article March 20, 1920 Issue

An article in the Times-Picayune quotes remarks of a...

A. J. Chapman

New Orleans (La.) Times-Picayune

An article in the Times-Picayune quotes remarks of a prominent Chicago physician, who referred to Christian Science as one of the "little foxes" which interfere with public health work. In view of the fact that Christian Scientists are, as a unit, in support of all sane sanitary laws and regulations, and that Christian Science is daily growing in importance as a healing agent, it is rather difficult to understand how it can interfere with public health work.

Our critic is kind enough to admit that Christian Science is useful as a cure for mental diseases, and this admission certainly indicates that the views of the medical fraternity as to the efficacy of Christian Science in healing disease are becoming more liberal; for it has not been such a great while since it was claimed by physicians that to believe in Christian Science healing was an indication of mental disease. Christian Science takes the position that all disease is of mental origin; that is, it is the result of wrong thinking, a manifestation of the carnal or mortal mind, which the Bible says is "enmity against God," and this condition is to be corrected by a process of spiritual, right thinking, which is in accord with the declaration of Paul in his epistle to the Romans, "To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."

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