Several
weeks ago we called attention to a letter from a physician in which, although these are not the exact words in which he expressed his thought, he boasted somewhat of the fact that a certain other physician had been elected to the Legislature of his state solely because he was a physicians and would use his position as a legislator to further the interests of his colleagues in their efforts to prevent the people from employing any method of healing other than that which they dealt in.
Every
student of historic Christianity must come to see the very great difference between the individualism of Christ Jesus and the individualism of the Protestant movement inaugurated by Huss and Savonarola and put into organic form by Luther and his associates.
Recent
events recall vividly the Scriptural account of Elijah's struggle with the entrenched beliefs of an idolatrous people, and his further struggle with the so-called destructive forces of nature, when he sought refuge from the wrath of Jezebel in a cave on mount Horeb.
An
editorial writer in the Chicago Inter Ocean, in commenting upon the efforts of organized physicians to secure legislation which will bar from the work of healing the sick all systems other than the one which they practise, says: "There is one fact that the advocates of statutory compulsion to what they regard as the only medical orthodoxy, would do well to remember.
To
no teaching did Christ Jesus give greater prominence, both in his words and works, than to this, that he who understands spiritual law can overcome and annual thereby the claims of so-called material law.
To the student of Christian Science who is desirous of gaining a thorough understanding of its fundamental truths, the question of class teaching sooner or later presents itself, and it may be helpful to those whose interest in Christian Science is a comparatively recent one, to know that such teaching had Mrs.