In
its reformatory mission among mortals, Christian Science is working a radical but most needful change in the general thought upon the subject of metaphysical healing.
There has been introduced in the Oregon legislature a bill compelling parents and guardians to employ doctors of some school of medicine in case of sickness in their families.
It is probable that many Christian people who have opposed the Christian Science teaching that physical healing should be effected without the use of drugs, are unfamiliar with the fact that the founder of Methodism fully believed in spiritual healing, and at times relied wholly upon God for health and strength, and this not for himself alone but for his beasts as well.
Bigotry and the latent spirit of persecution has so far prevailed in the legislature as to induce the members in both branches to pass a law aimed at the practice of Christian Science.
The
following statement by Alfred Farlow, Christian Science Publication Committee for the United States, was addressed, March 10, to the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Maine, in reply to a circular letter to Christian Scientists by Senator Potter, in which he said,—
