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."

Now, I ask, does the reverend gentleman mean exactly what he says? If so, he will note that Christ Jesus paid no attention to so-called laws of sanitation; he never used drugs, but he always went about doing good and healing every known disease among the people by spiritual means, by prayer. It would be well for any "apostle" or follower of Jesus to ponder well the truth of these "things as they are" and render obedience to the Master's pointed command, "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils." Furthermore, it would be well for such apostles to study the only and original Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, before attempting to explain the gospel of Christian healing. In that book are found these pertinent lines (p. 37): "When will Jesus' professed followers learn to emulate him in all his ways and to imitate his mighty works?" And again, "It is possible,—yea, it is the duty and privilege of every child, man, and woman,—to follow in some degree the example of the Master by the demonstration of Truth and Life, of health and holiness."

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