The
different light in which coroners view the many deaths under medical treatment which come to their attention, and an occasional death under Christian Science treatment, is aptly shown in a statement to the New York Sun by the Christian Science committee on publication for that state, from which we quote as follows:—
Thoughtful
people are becoming deeply impressed with the conviction that the social order embraces many facts and conditions which are altogether wrong, and that the spirit of Christian brotherhood, alone, can right them.
To the student of Christian Science the Scriptures take on a new meaning and make strong demands for unhesitating obedience to statements of truth which were formerly passed over as having no vital relation to the working out of our present-day problems.
That
the normal Christian life means steady growth, would appeal to most people as logical if not axiomatic; and if they were asked the meaning of growth, practically all would approve the saying that "the Christian man should grow as grows the tree.
In
the fourth chapter of Acts we read that after Peter and John had been released by the high priest and his kindred, and they and "their own company" had prayed, "they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
In
the prophecy of Zechariah we are told of a fountain which was to be opened, or revealed, "for sin and for uncleanness;" and in the book of Proverbs we find a statement which readily relates itself to the first,—"The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
In
the case of their young, as in other things, the robins are governed by that unacquired impulse and ability which we call instince, but they act very much as the wisdom of experience would impel human parents to act under kindred circumstances.
