Article June 12, 1943 Issue

It will unquestionably be interesting...

Samuel S. Ball

Courier-News

Samuel S. Ball, Committee on Publication for New Jersey, in the Courier-News, Plainfield

It will unquestionably be interesting to your readers to consider a friendly criticism of the opening statement of an editorial, entitled "Preventing Disease," which appeared in a recent issue of your paper. This was to the effect that the experience of the Amish colony in Pennsylvania illustrated "the futility of trying to substitute religious practices for preventive medicine."

Perhaps it was not intended to include Christian Science in this conclusion. But since Christian Science is a religion in which no material medicines or medical means are employed, for either the prevention or the healing of disease, such a broad conclusion would embrace it. Therefore, to set the record straight, the following facts should be known.

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