Article March 7, 1925 Issue

A recent issue of your paper contains an account of a...

W. Truman Green, Committee on Publication for the State of Florida,—Jacksonville

Times-Union

A recent issue of your paper contains an account of a lecture by a doctor on the subject of "cancer," wherein he states that thousands die annually in the United States of that dread disease.

It is well known that approximately the entire number had restored to the medical profession for relief and were subjected to all of the remedial agents that the doctors deemed best for the malady. Yet, in the face of the failure on the part of the medical profession to combat and cure this disease, the gentleman, in the course of his lecture, stated that the practice of Christian Science for its healing was mere tommyrot and quackery. That the public may see the grave injustice of these remarks, which are nothing less than an attempt to prejudice those who might otherwise turn to God through Christian Science, the Christianity of Christ Jesus, for their freedom from this dread disease, I am submitting the testimony of two healings from cancer, through Christian Science treatment, published recently in the Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer, in refutation of the charges made in that city by the critic to the effect that Christian Science treatment for the cure of cancer was mere "tommyrot." ...

In view of such cases and of innumerable others in which Christian Science has healed people who were suffering from severe or extreme forms of this disease, there is no reason why cancer or any disease should be regarded as beyond the scope of its efficacy, and, especially so when it is understood that it is the power of God in Christian Science which heals. According to the gentleman's own figures, it is shown that, with all of the improved methods employed by the medical profession to cope with this disease, the present death rate is far in excess of what it was half a century ago. At that time doctors used neither thermocautery, X-ray, nor radium treatment, nor were they at that time confirmed operationists. From his statistics it would seem that about the worst thing a poor mortal afflicted with cancer could do would be to place himself under medical treatment, for the doctor acknowledged that of developed cases they lose over seventy-eight per cent.

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