The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-02-02
CHARTER DENIED to- CHURCH.
Healing by Faith Contrary To the
/. Laws sfPennsyivanta.

Philadelphia, FEB. Judge Penny
packer, Of Philadelphia, recently hand
ed down decispn in which he refused
charter to the first Church of Christ
ian Scientists. h his ruling he declar-
ed that the Incorporation Of church
having faith eur for one of it's tenets
is contrary to tn statutes of Pennsyl-
vania. In his Onion he says:
The purpose & the proposed cOrpor-
alton, as appeaE from the suggested
charter is to prech the gospel accord
ing to the doctrine of Christ az found
in the Bible andstated i'm the tenets of
Christian Scienc, Among the tenets
so described is: I We acknowledge the
way Of salvaJim demonstrated by Je-
sus 10 be the ptwer of truth over all
error, sin, sickness and death, and the
resurrection of human faith and under
standing To SEIZE the great possibilities
and living eneTses Of divine life
IF the purpos. of the proposed-cor-
poration were, np To inculcate a creed
or 10 promulgated form Of worship no
question could arse because under the
constitution of pennsylvania private
belief is beyond public control. and
there can be no Interference with the
right Of conscience. But thf most cur
sorry examination of the report OF the
master upon the testimony, and OF the
tenets, and Of IN book of Mrs. Eddy,
which is placed Pon a level with the
Bible in the teachings Of this church.
shows that there is Christian faith
and a science, nc, only a BELIEF, but q
purpose To accomplish practical results,
not only an attmpt To educate the
community Ia The Importance of the
but an effort toestablish a prescribed
method OF practfing the art Of healing
the diseases of ue body.
The treatmen extends to the most
serious and fata of diseases, rheuma-
usm, scrofula, ANGER, smallpox and
consumption. If he case to be mental
ly treated is conumption, take up the
leading points Included according to
the belief in thatdisease. Show that it
is not inherited, that inflammation,
tubercles. hemorhage :, 4 decomposi-
ton are beliefs.
The patients, Oung and old, are also
to be rcated fora compensation, To hf.
paid to those wiD work the beneticent
results. To the Question of the master
whether Ale system permitted any per-
son who was instrumental III making
such a cure to receive compensation for
the service, the answer was: Yes, in
the sense that JESUS said: The labor
ei is wort ! ,jf his hire" Let us sup
pose says the ook, page i20, "that a
surgeon is empDyed in the one case
and a Christ an Scientists in the other.
1t iS-quite clea-, therefore, that what
is proposed IL much more than Il
church. since thge is besides To be es-
tablished a system for the treatment Of
disease. to be arried into effect by
persons trained for the purpose, who
may receive compensation for their
services.
The act of M.rch a. 1917, provides:
1t shall be unlawful after the passage
Of this act. for any person To announce
himself. or hcrsef as a practitioner Of
medicine, surgeT OF obstetrics. or to
practice the sam. who has not receiv-
ed i'm a regular manner a diploma from
a chartered medical school, duly au-
thurized to ConfT upon its alumni the
degree of docto of medicine. and a
violation Of the ;ct is made punishable
as a misdemeanT. with fine OF from
$500 to $500 for esh offense.
The object o. this act is TO provide
that for the pradice OF an art so dif-
ticult and abstrue as the treatment Of
disease the peTSn so employed must
have had the bnefit Of learning and
experience OF tn past so far as il can
be given by teching in the medical
schools. To giant this charter would
be to sanction a system of dealing
with disease t.nlly at variance with
any contemplated by the act Of 1877,
different from sny taught in a charter
ed medical sChoO.