Article September 12, 1931 Issue

According to your report of a session of the Southwestern...

Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,—Fort Worth

Star-Telegram

According to your report of a session of the Southwestern Tuberculosis Conference, held recently in Fort Worth, a medical man of your city included a reference in his address that was plainly directed toward the practice of Christian Science, though not specifically so stated.

During the course of his remarks this speaker is quoted as having said that instead of going to a physician before or after they had begun to manifest symptoms of tuberculosis, the afficted ones often go to "some neurotic old dame and he buys some prayer only to have her inform him that he has an error in his mortal mind." It is submitted that such an uncouth, aspersive, and uncalled-for remark concerning any Christian lady dignifies neither the person making it nor the profession for which he elected to speak.

Moreover, in making such a misleading assertion concerning the alleged "buying" of prayer, and his use of the term "error in mortal mind," our critic betrays an inexcusable lack of information on the subject of Christian Science and its mode of treatment. Furthermore, he thus parts with the attitude of some of the foremost surgeons and physicians in the world toward Christian Science. Dr. Richard C. Cabot, while instructor of clinical medicine in Harvard University, spoke of the "good effects" of Christian Science; said that he had not "the slightest doubt that it does good, that it cures disease, organic as well as functional." Senator Royal S. Copeland, former commissioner of health in the city of New York, more than once has spoken approvingly of Christian Science, saying on one occasion: "Our Christian Science friends are in possession of a great blessing. They have learned that fear of one variety and another is at the root of most of our troubles."

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