Article July 14, 1928 Issue

A doctor is manifestly unfair to his own profession when,...

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

State Journal

A doctor is manifestly unfair to his own profession when, in his article in a recent issue, he speaks of doctors as "a pretty punk lot and [who] have their queer ways and all that." He is equally unfair to Christian Scientists in his quotation from an unnamed correspondent, who hints vaguely at the unhappy effects of Christian Science. I am quite sure that the doctor does not need to be told that Christian Science is not injurious to those who rely upon it for the healing of their ills. He doubtless numbers among his acquaintances enough Christian Scientists to reassure himself that Christian Scientists are not charlatans, nor a menace to their neighbors' welfare. The search for health often culminates in a search for God. Such a search inculcates clearer and more independent thinking, and that in turn leads people to rise superior to the pessimistic forebodings of doom and disaster which your correspondent so rightly deprecates.

Christian Scientists make no attempt to interfere with the preference which others may entertain for medical advice or treatment. They are busy minding their own business. The progress which they have already made in actually proving that the power of God is available to heal disease and discord is adequate confirmation of the teachings of Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes on page 151 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Great respect is due the motives and philanthropy of the higher class of physicians. We know that if they understood the Science of Mind-healing, and were in possession of the enlarged power it confers to benefit the race physically and spiritually, they would rejoice with us."

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