Conceding that drugs, with the action of which the doctors are wholly unfamiliar, are often harmful rather than beneficial, Professor Thayer, of the Johns Hopkins medical faculty, confesses himself a firm believer in the simpler physical and psychical methods of treating disease.
When
first interested in Christian Science I used to attend services in a small chapel which was used while First Church of Christ, Scientist, London, was being constructed on the adjoining plot of ground.
While
Christian Science was still new to the writer, there came to her for decision a moral question which she at first attempted to settle by the old method of mental debate and the balancing of reasons.
No feeling that mankind can encourage is more rational and right than a spirit of thanksgiving to God, for upon the very fact of His existence—which some unthinking people profess to disbelieve—depends all the possibilities for good that are open to man.