The Legislature has taken the liberal and sensible course in rejecting the proposition to forbid the practice of healing by other than regular physicians.
Christian Scientists believe in right thinking, in right acting, and in so ordering their lives that they will make the world brighter and better than they found it, and render it more of a paradise for having lived in it.
"There are on an average four thousand doctors graduated every year by the medical colleges of the country, and about three fourths of these are utterly incompetent and should never be permitted to practise medicine.
It
is usually difficult for beginners in Christian Science properly to appreciate the great courage and wisdom of our Leader in departing from established customs of public worship and giving to the Christian Science Church the Lesson-Sermons by which it has so greatly profited, and some may not value the Sermons themselves at their true worth for daily study and for Sunday service.
In
the present state of human advancement, when scarcely a week passes without a new "wonderful" discovery being announced, it is the ambition of the average man to know everything.
with contributions from Alfred Farlow, Ira O. Knapp, William B. Johnson, Stephen A. Chase, Joseph Armstrong, William A. Morse, Calvin A. Frye, Lewis C. Strang, Irving C. Tomlinson, Hermann S. Hering, Fred C. Demond
with contributions from Harvey S. Chase, Frank S. Streeter, Fred N. Ladd, Mary Baker G. Eddy, Allen Hollis, Henry M. Baker, Calvin A. Frye, Archibald McLellan, Josiah E. Fernald
The
following affidavits were filed in the Superior Court at Concord on May 17 and 18.