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The article contributed to the columns of a recent issue on the subject of "National Hospital Day" would be appropriate and unobjectionable were it not that it includes offensive, erroneous, unjust, and uncalled-for accusations against Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, against her teachings, and against Christian Scientists in general. Nowhere in Mrs. Eddy's writings are to be found such unseemly statements regarding hospitals, surgeons, doctors, nurses, and medical or surgical procedure as those attributed to her by our critic. On the contrary, her writings contain many evidences of high regard for the medical faculty, and appreciation of their humanitarian efforts to alleviate mankind's manifold ills. The attitude of Mrs. Eddy towards the medical profession, as well as that of her students generally, is adequately set forth in the following quotations from her work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 151): "Great respect is due the motives and philanthropy of the higher class of physicians;" and (p. 164), "It is just to say that generally the cultured class of medical practitioners are grand men and women."
It is recognized that there is a definite need to-day on the part of many for the surgeon, the doctor, the nurse, and the humanitarian institutions with which they are identified. Christian Scientists, however, deprecate and oppose compulsory (state) medicine; but they accord full freedom of conscience to all, not only in religious beliefs, but in medical preferences and practices as well. It is never advanced as an argument that because Jesus' immediate disciples failed to heal in a given instance his teachings were proved worthless; neither do occasional failures on the part of students of Christian Science prove the inefficacy of their teachings. The evidence in its favor is too preponderating to-day for any one to challenge successfully the healing efficacy of Christian Science; and noted surgeons and medical men have testified to its worth. Christian Science, correctly demonstrated, obviates the necessity for surgical or medical procedure. Since its students may not have that understanding of God's power necessary to meet the need in every instance, there is no inconsistency in calling a surgeon to set a broken limb. Nevertheless, Christian Scientists do not hold that God, Truth, is unable to heal in these cases, as in all others; and most practitioners of Christian Science know of instances of broken and dislocated bones being set and healed through their religion, without the aid of surgeon or material appliance.

March 20, 1926 issue
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The Sleeping and the Waking Dream
RUFUS STEELE
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The Test of Progress
ELIZABETH H. HUNT
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Joy in Temptation
ARTHUR G. STEVENSON
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"Clearer skies"
MARGUERITE CALDWELL SWANTEES
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Daughter of Zion
LAURA DUNBAR HAGARTY
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"Thy kingdom come"
THESTER A. MC CLENNAN
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God Spoke to Me!
MINNY M. H. AYERS
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Please permit us to make a short reply to the critic...
Mrs. Gudrun G. Jensen, Committee on Publication for Norway,
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In the report of a lecture delivered in your city by a doctor,...
Harry L. Rhodes, Committee on Publication for the State of Kansas,
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The article contributed to the columns of a recent issue...
Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
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It is strange that any one, knowing whereof he speaks,...
Miss V. M. Blanche Stievenard, Committee on Publication for Hertfordshire,
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In behalf of all Christian Scientists, and especially of a...
Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,
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We thank you for a contributor's appreciative remarks...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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Love
MYRTLE ELLA ROBERTSON
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Our Periodicals
Albert F. Gilmore
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Honesty
Ella W. Hoag
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"The test of our sincerity"
Duncan Sinclair
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The Lectures
with contributions from H. J. Hooper, Blanche R. Nessly
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I want to express something of my deep gratitude for the...
Margaret K. Spear
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In the summer of 1912 I became ill with a very severe...
Mabel E. Kline
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I am very grateful for the complete healing in Christian Science...
Edna S. Rittenhouse
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It is a pleasure to tell about my healing through Christian Science
Hendrika G. Japikse
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I am grateful to Christian Science and to Mary Baker Eddy,...
Nadine L. Harkness
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Christian Science has been my only physician and almost...
Harry Wickersham
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In the years that I have been blessed with a little knowledge...
Winifred Hanley-Kingsford
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Before taking up the study of Christian Science in earnest...
Mildred Churchill
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With a heart full of gratitude I wish to testify to the...
Elizabeth Otto
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I had been suffering from bladder trouble for several...
William C. Wallace
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Ernest Birdsell Cole, B. Earle Parker