In the New Era of June 16, several excerpts of a report...

Robert C. Humphrey, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia,—Decatur

DeKalb New Era

In the New Era of June 16, several excerpts of a report "submitted to the committee on the costs of medical care" by an investigator in Washington, District of Columbia, are published. Christian Science is mentioned in the report in question, directly and implied, in such a way as to indicate an effort to discredit the practical application of this teaching to the healing of disease.

The investigator need not have gone beyond the confines of Washington to have found scores of persons from whom he could have obtained convincing proof of the healing of functional, organic, chronic, and acute types of disease by the application of the rules of Christian Science—a large percentage of such cases having been previously diagnosed as such and treated accordingly by reputable physicians who failed to heal them.

At the Wednesday testimony meetings in Christian Science churches throughout the world, grateful acknowledgment is given of similar healings and other blessings. Our weekly and monthly church periodicals, the Christian Science Sentinel and The Christian Science Journal, respectively, publish regularly numerous carefully verified testimonies of like healings.

It is cause for much surprise that the medical committee's investigator did not get this direct, first-hand information on the subject, without which he cannot qualify as a competent judge in the case.

And surely there is no better way known by which correctly and impartially to judge a cause than by its effects. Jesus established this standard rule when he said, "Ye shall know them by their fruits." Were Christian Scientists so judged, their spokesmen would not be called upon to correct either verbal or written unsubstantiated and unwarranted statements made by critics.

Christian Science has become a world-wide religious movement; the membership of its churches is composed of men and women of integrity, reputation, and intelligence. It is because of the practical, provable message which Christian Science has for them that people in large numbers are enlisting in the Christian Science church; and not because of any innate dissatisfaction with, or opposition to doctors, to medicine, to other religions, or churches.

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