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.
with contributions from Theodore L. Cuyler, Edward Everett Hale
It has been reported around the world that the Russian ecclesiastical authorities have changed the Fifth Commandment so as to read, "Honor thy father and thy mother, the emperor and his officials, that thy days may be long in the land.
Bertha Gunther-Peterson
with contributions from Marie Schoen
Dear Sentinel,—We wish to tell the Field that since June first of this year, we have been chartered by the German government as Erste Kirche Christi des Scientisten in Deutschland.
Upon
reading in the Sentinel the statement that better Scientists were needed more than numbers, the questions came: Are you meeting this demand upon you?
Probably
nine-tenths of the people in the civilized world regard children as so many little animals, embryomen and women, dependents to be fed and clothed, kissed and petted, but standing on a very different plane—a lower one, too—than themselves.
