The report of the case of a child of a Christian Science practitioner having attended school while broken out with smallpox has received so much publicity that one naturally wonders if this is the only child that has gone out in public while affected with what the health officer might call contagion.
In a recent issue a reference is made to Christian Science in the article, "Talks on Health, by a Family Doctor," in which the author is represented as saying, "Do not wait to be cured by the suggestive powers of Christian Science or mesmerism.
The faculty of hope is so common to the human race and has been so generally commended as one of humanity's saving graces, that it comes with a touch of surprise to find that this sentiment, as much as any other human concept, needs to be healed; or, more exactly, to be replaced with a scientific expectation, which performs its function without betrayal.
Were
the thoughtful individual called upon to tell what it is he is most in search of, he would readily admit that it is peace and happiness, which to a Christian Scientist means the truth.
