Article September 23, 1933 Issue

There is an axiom which reads, "No one knows the sea...

Hugh Stuart Campbell, Committee on Publication for the State of Illinois,

In the Enterprise, Plainfield

There is an axiom which reads, "No one knows the sea like a sailor." In conformity with this saying it is obvious that no one knows the systems of medication and sanitation as do the medical doctors or sanitary engineers, and it is equally obvious that a censorious clergyman who turns aside from preaching his own religion to criticize another is not so fittingly qualified to discuss the doctrine of Christian Science as is a Christian Scientist.

In connection with an article entitled "More Information" published in the Enterprise on March 30, it will be observed that this point was well taken; for your contributor furnished your readers with cursory comment on things medical and used the occasion to present an incorrect view of Christian Science, gleaned, no doubt, from the writings of prejudiced or misinformed authors.

It is not my purpose to engage in controversy. It would be easy to submit several columns of reading matter in correction of the misleading information contained in the article under consideration. However, I shall ask space only for a brief observation: Your contributor said in conclusion, "Yours for the truth of things as they are," and signed himself "an apostle of Jesus."

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