How very many people there are in this world who honestly and sincerely believe that God sends sickness and various kinds of affliction upon them for some reason, they know not what, but out of which they are trying to hope and believe that some good will come if they endure patiently.
Every time some one dies of an incurable disease who has pinned his faith on Christian Science the opponents of that cult put on their war paint and strike out vigorously.
The Christian Scientists, faith curists, and people generally who choose to receive attendance in their own way or go without it when sick, have secured a distinct victory in the liberal state of Illinois, where it is held by the attorney-general that mental methods of treating diseases are not in violation of the law.
Christian Science has won a victory in Illinois where the attorney-general has rendered a decision that no offence is committed by the treatment of a patient by mental or spiritual methods where no medicine is used.
When medical science has looked at a man's tongue and thumped his chest and has finally determined that he is suffering from an "incurable disease," has medical science any right to prolong his suffering by filling his internal regions with nux vomica or cinchona?
From the scare-headings in the newspapers, Another Christian Science Victim, one might be led to suppose that there were no victims of regular doctors.
A few
weeks ago the Boston morning papers, under flaring headlines, told of the death of a young boy by the name of Hedenberg in Needham while under the care of a Christian Science healer, the parents of the boy being Christian Scientists, and he himself, it is said, preferring that treatment.
