In your kindly reference to Christian Science, you make the statement that "it is based largely upon the belief that many of the ills the flesh is supposed to be heir to are but vagaries of the mind; that the cultivation of will-power and the creation of beautiful thoughts will tend to alleviate the greater portion of these.
My attention has been called to the Times of recent date, in which an evangelist is reported as having ridiculed the contention of Christian Scientists that material things are unreal.
In reply to an article entitled "Healing with No License," in a recent issue, permit me to assure you and your readers that Christian Scientists have no desire to amend the medical practice act in so far as that act applies to the practice of medicine, but they certainly have a desire to amend it in so far as it goes outside its domain to place spiritual communion with the Almighty in the same category with drugs and surgery and to drag the law of God down to the level of human codes.
The Thorn bill, legitimatizing the practice of Christian Science healing in New York state, now before the judiciary committee of the Assembly, should be reported by that committee and passed.
My comment has been requested on a letter from a Lutheran minister which you recently published, in which he announced his discovery that Christian Science denies the deity of Jesus.
Before
the teachings of Christian Science came to leaven the thought of the world, a man's sense of goodness was often measured by the amount of suffering he endured, and also by the degree to which he could efface himself, in other words, keep himself in the background.
The
spoken and the written word, imparted to us by means of the so-called physical senses, furnishes but a material means of communication, despite the purity of diction in which it way be clothed.
