Article June 2, 1928 Issue

In a recent issue of the Daily News, a doctor gives the...

Conrad Bernhard, Jr., Committee on Publication for the State of Maryland,—Cumberland

Daily News

In a recent issue of the Daily News, a doctor gives the summary of an article published in Mental Hygiene, and among other things states that the attitude of Christian Science is hostile toward the medical profession. As this is a mistake, kindly allow me to present a correction for the benefit of your readers. Like other followers of Christ Jesus, Christian Scientists are taught to bear no ill will toward any man or body of men. They could not consistently declare themselves his followers and at the same time maintain an attitude of hostility toward those noble men and women of the medical profession who go about striving to do good, even though in their theories of healing they may differ with Christian Science. No better authority on this subject can be quoted than the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, who says: "A genuine Christian Scientists loves Protestant and Catholic, D.D. and M.D.,—loves all who love God, good; and he loves his enemies. It will be found that, instead of opposing, such an individual subserves the interests of both medical faculty and Christianity, and they thrive together, learning that Mind-power is good will towards men" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 4).

When your contributor, going further, asks us to "find the common essential" of such divergent practices as Christian Science, Jewish Science, theosophy, and spiritualism, he is setting us what is obviously an impossible task. But should the inquiry be confined to Christian Science, we can be of assistance by informing your readers that the divine Principle of Christian Science practice is God, who, according to the Scriptures, "healeth all thy diseases." The implication that Christian Science is beneficial only when applied to the cure of a certain few diseases may readily be disproved at any Wednesday evening testimony meeting in Christian Science churches throughout the world. And certainly, when a sufferer from an organic or any other disease is healed, he knows it; and no "control experiment" or "expert diagnosis" is needed to convince him of the fact.

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