Article August 22, 1925 Issue

There has been a case in Winnipeg in which Christian Science...

George C. Palmer, Committee on Publication for the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada,—Prince Albert

Herald

There has been a case in Winnipeg in which Christian Science practitioners failed to save a little girl. Newspaper reporters, seeing their opportunity, gleefully seized upon the incident; and the news was spread from coast to coast under blazing scarlet headlines. The world has a perfect right to consider whether or not Christian Science has anything to offer. It has a moral right to conclude that it cannot fathom the viewpoint. It has not the right to judge the merits of the system upon the basis that occasionally a case is lost. Were this not so, every ship, airplane, steam boiler, coal mine, lighthouse, and such like, should be condemned on account of the many lives lost during the development period; were this not so, every case lost to the medical practitioner would prove the whole army of doctors guilty of manslaughter, whereas we know the majority to be noble men who, from their viewpoint, endeavor to relieve humanity of its ills.

It is a deplorable thing that little that is uplifting is considered "news," while in the case of one eighth of one per cent of university students who go astray or a similar proportion of unhappy homes the information is flashed from pole to pole. Of the thousands of Christian Science practitioners who are successfully grappling with sin and disease nothing is said, while in one case of nonsuccess the jeers of the world are broadcast. Is it surprising that when a man has been condemned to a month's existence on this plane and gets completely healed by Christian Science, he should favor the spiritual method for his child?

In the recent case of Dr. Hadwen in England, a case given wide publicity, the judge, in his charge to the jury, stated that it is not enough to lay a charge of manslaughter on the basis of neglect to use certain methods. You must be able to prove that had other means been utilized success would have been assured.

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