Article April 26, 1924 Issue

In behalf of Christian Scientists, I wish to protest to...

Judge Clifford P. Smith, Committee on Publication for The Mother Church, Boston, Massachusetts,—Bellows Falls, Vermont

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In behalf of Christian Scientists, I wish to protest to your readers against the following paragraph in your column headed, "The Moaning Waves": "There are many people who believe that their minds govern their lives, but they would be insulted to be called Christian Scientists." Doubtless there are many people besides Christian Scientists who believe that their minds govern their lives, but usually they are intelligent people who would not be insulted to be called Christian Scientists. In fact, there are more than a few people who are not Christian Scientists but who wish they were.

The paragraph in question reminds me, by contrast, of the different comment made about a year ago by Dr. Hugh Cabot, then and now dean of the medical school of the University of Michigan, but during the war a distinguished medical officer in the United States Army and previously a well-known physician of Boston, which was publicly reported as follows: "There is no question but that a great many people have been made useful citizens by the doctrine of Christian Science."

Kindly allow me, also, to quote the following statement made in 1921 by former Governor Samuel W. McCall of Massachusetts: "I cannot claim to have any particular knowledge of Christian Science, but I know that its followers are intelligent and sincere people in whom you can certainly trust."

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