Allow me to make a brief comment on the recent decision of a New York court in the case of a Christian Science practitioner, referred to in a recent issue under the heading "Legal Cases of Interest.
In a sermon by an evangelist, as reported in a recent issue of your paper, the statement was made that Christian Science "takes away the hope of heaven through the blood of Jesus Christ.
The campaign of the regular medical organizations of Illinois to secure ante-election pledges from candidates, binding them to support the doctors' legislative program, aroused strong opposition from numbers of citizens who, though probably not themselves interested in the rival theories of cure, are deeply concerned in preserving the freedom and moral integrity of their legislative representatives.
Christian Scientists packed the House chamber and galleries of the Capitol to their last foot of standing room last night, only to learn that the bills against which they had come to protest had been withdrawn.
It will have to be admitted by all fair-minded people that the opposition on the part of Christian Scientists to this bill is based on good grounds, and is consequently fully justified, because with one fell swoop this bill classifies among the quacks, clairvoyants, and charm-workers, whom it aims to suppress, some of the most successful healers of physical and mental ills that the world has ever known.
Estimating
the future progress of Christian Science by the past two decades of its history, one is reminded of our Leader's prophetic statement at the time of the dedication of the original edifice of The Mother Church in 1895: "If the lives of Christian Scientists attest their fidelity to Truth, I predict that in the twentieth century every Christian church in our land, and a few in far-off lands, will approximate the understanding of Christian Science sufficiently to heal the sick in his name".
A few days ago the Herald called attention to a bill before the Legislature which would prevent members of the Christian Science faith from practising in the state without a medical license.
