Article May 24, 1930 Issue

A letter from one of your readers on faith-healing in...

Richard E. Prince, Committee on Publication for the State of Virginia,—Lynchburg

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A letter from one of your readers on faith-healing in your issue of February 9, asks the question, "Do you suppose that the Los Angeles Times really means what it says? Do you suppose that it has any confidence in religious cults that pretend to heal? It is hard to think of a modern daily doing anything but ridiculing such." While Christian Science is not specifically mentioned, it is evidently included in the "religious cults" referred to.

Christian Science does even more than "pretend to heal," it actually heals all forms of disease, organic as well as functional, when correctly applied. The editorial in question did not defend quacks or impostors, but it protested strongly against the intolerance which would outlaw all methods of healing save one.

As there are to-day thirty-one Christian Science churches in the city of Los Angeles, supported and attended by thousands of men and women who have been healed through the ministrations of Christian Science, the Los Angeles Times has had ample opportunity to learn what Christian Science is doing in its community. In the face of this army of witnesses, made up, as it says, of "large numbers of our best credited and most influential people," it is only natural that the Los Angeles Times should protest against the narrow-mindedness which would deny to any group of people recourse to that method of treatment which they deem most efficacious. In fact, the day is past when a reputable daily would lower its standard of justice and fair play so far as to ridicule the teachings and practice of a religious organization which is blessing and healing such a large proportion of mankind.

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