Article December 20, 1941 Issue

The Knoxville Journal recently carried an article which...

John M. Dean,

Knoxville Journal

The Knoxville Journal recently carried an article which referred to Christian Science in a manner that calls for a reply. I therefore request space for that purpose.

In these days it seems presumptuous for anyone, be he physician or layman, to assert that certain types of disease, or certain individual patients, would or could have been healed by medical treatment. Further, it is doubtful that any reputable physician would make such a claim.

Christian Scientists have no quarrel with the doctors — far from it — but observers might, if they so desired, comment on the many cases that are lost under so-called orthodox treatment. Christian Scientists, however, bid Godspeed to every good effort of others, and ask only the same kindly consideration for themselves. As a matter of fact, a very large number of the students of Christian Science became such because medical treatment had failed to heal them.