Prosecuting Christian Scientists
By Editor
Several prosecutions of "Christian Scientists" are going on in the East. The charge is of practising medicine without a license. The hope of conviction rests in the fact that the patient died. Now we do not believe in so-called "Christian Science." So far as we can understand, it is neither Christian nor scientific, and is so demonstrated, if a negative can be, by the teachings and practises of the cult. But when a patient, in his right mind, voluntarily seeks "Christian Science" aid, and dies, why should the "Christian Science" "doctor" be prosecuted more than the "regular" practitioner who loses his patient? or the homeopath, who does not agree with the regular? or the eclectic, who disagrees with both? Nature, after all, must effect the cure. How many times do the licensed physicians hinder or utterly thwart nature? This is not to condemn the doctors. We prefer their advice to "Christian Science," but there is no gain made by prosecuting the followers of Mrs. Eddy.