Article September 17, 1927 Issue

In a column in your recent issue a writer records the...

Francis Lyster Jandron, Committee on Publication for the State of Michigan,—Saginaw

News Courier

In a column in your recent issue a writer records the opinion that "the regular or ordinary doctors, the real doctors, are a pretty punk lot and have their queer ways and all that." Christian Scientists do not share that view, because most of them have learned through experience that physicians are usually sincere and unselfish in their desire to help and heal mankind. It is also true that there would be fewer Christian Scientists in the world to-day if the practice of Christian Science had the unhappy results vaguely hinted at by the correspondent whom the writer quotes. In proportion as the law of God is allowed to govern humanity's search for healing of its woes, physical, mental, and moral, the results attained must of necessity tend toward harmony, health, and happiness. Enlightened members of the medical profession have frequently called attention to this supremely important fact. One critic of Christian Science, Sir William Barrett, in a recently published book, has this to say: "It is impossible for so beautiful an outcome of religious belief to exist without a solid foundation of truth. ... Cures, often of a very remarkable character, are effected. The marvelous improvement in the general health of persons who have become adherents to this faith is unquestionable."

Christian Science is not dangerous, and Christian Scientists are not quacks. The essence and method of Christian Science are lucidly indicated in the following brief quotation from Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 146): "By trusting matter to destroy its own discord, health and harmony have been sacrificed. Such systems are barren of the vitality of spiritual power, by which material sense is made the servant of Science and religion becomes Christlike."

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