Article October 30, 1954 Issue

LETTERS TO THE PRESS FROM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COMMITTEES ON PUBLICATION

Will B. Davis

The American Journal of Sociology

The American Journal of Sociology
Chicago, Illinois

In your March issue [a contributor] examines five hundred "letters of testimony" in regard to Christian Science healing. These five hundred letters are presumably a representative selection from an extensive body of published evidence (amounting to many thousands of testimonials), largely neglected by social scientists.

It is gratifying to find an article paying serious attention to this evidence, but a little surprising to note the polemic tone of some of the statements. [The writer] has selected from these letters certain aspects which bear out his thesis but in so doing appears not to have considered impressive evidence they contain which conflicts with his theories.

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