Article February 17, 1934 Issue

In a recent issue of the Times there appeared a report...

Joseph Coffer, Committee on Publication for the State of Oklahoma,—Oklahoma City

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In a recent issue of the Times there appeared a report of an address delivered by a doctor guests attending the annual clinic dinner of the Oklahoma City Clinical Society. The doctor, styled as the stalwart defender of medicine, "slyly stealing into what he said is 'quackery camp,' put stone after stone into his verbal sling shot," aimed indiscriminately at all those who might have the temerity to seek physical healing through other agencies than those approved by conventional medicine.

Christian Science was assailed as a "cult," and its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, unwarrantedly held up to ridicule. But in the words of Lincoln, "Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."

It never has been the attitude of Christian Scientists to force their religion upon others. It does not teach opposition to medical practitioners, and entertains no animus against the medical profession. On the contrary, it holds them in high esteem; and in no way does it minimize the element of self-sacrifice and devotion to duty which so frequently characterizes the noble services rendered by self-respecting doctors. On page 151 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes, "Great respect is due the motives andphilanthropy of the higher class of physicians;" and on page 164, "It is just to say that generally the cultured class of medical practitioners are grand men and women."

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