President-elect Wilson, in the course of an address to a gathering of social workers at the private house in Hoboken where he was a week-end guest, is reported to have said of the proposal for national supervision of matters of health and sanitation: "Most of the things you have spoken of are without political embarrassment.
It cannot be too widely known that Christian Science has nothing in common with human will-power, and so I ask your permission to correct the statement in a recent issue which would lead the casual reader to imagine that the healing achieved in Christian Science is in some way the outcome of the exercise of such an agency.
The editor of the Empire in one paragraph of his recent attack assures the public that he has no desire to curtail the religious liberty of Christian Scientists, and almost in the same breath announces that Christian Scientists "When going to the extreme of turning down and forbidding all material aids in sickness, should be protected by a statute making this practise misdemeanor if not felony.
I have read the article entitled "The Doctor Faith-healer" in a recent issue and regret that the writer should have thought fit to include in it statements with regard to Christian Science long since worn threadbare.
A clergyman in an excellent sermon, in which he expresses admiration for the medical profession, for their devotion and courage, which we all heartily endorse, goes on to speak, perhaps not quite so kindly, of Christian Science as a "one-eyed system.
Judging from the remarks of a traveling evangelist at Columbus, Ohio, as quoted in a recent issue, the most charitable assumption would be that he does not know what Christian Science is.
In a sermon against Christian Science reported in a recent issue the gentleman proves himself to be many years behind the times by standing on ground long abandoned by most critics as untenable.
