The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-22

that cannot stand upon its own merits
| ought to be swept into Oblivion. Any
church or any system of healing that
Is continually battling against incom-
ing methods and newer ideas is by that
| furnishing all the evidence necessary
of its own weakness and barrenness.
and it ought to fall. AS. such methods
! violate the very principle of self-gov-
| eminent, they sooner or later betray
| themselves and fall because of their
own ignorance.
Christian Science has none of these
methods and cannot be tortured into
adopting them. We are surprised that
a craft so shaky as that of materia
medica should ever make an attack
upon Christian Science. 1t is a mani
fest lack of wisdom. A thinking public
reads between the lines and as a con-
sequence thousands have begun to in
vestigate Christian Science The
methods of opposition employed and
their daily loss of ground indicate their
inability to handle a metaphysi-
cal subject. We are surprised
that physicians pretend to have
law and justice on their side in
the face of the court records, which
show We have won more than 50 per
cent of all cases that ever came into
court
Yes, we are well aware that the board
Of health in New York City is making
an attack on the Scientists, and we are
also aware of the fact that the Scien-
lists in that city published a full list
or all their practitioners and invited
the board Of health to institute prose-
cuuonS, If they wished to do So
We are doing nothing under cover.
II we judge from court decisions and
public sentiment we are warranted in
saying we are as near the hearts of the
people and the law of the land as any
other set Of people.
Christian Science successfully heals !
every form of disease, and while we
do not claim to have healed everything |
that has come to US. we do claim that |
our percentage of loss is far less than /
that OF any other system of healing.
We invite a comparison of death GER !
and viii offer the statement |
IN advance that physicians lose three /
patients to our one, Notwithstanding |
the fact that many of their sO-called |
lncurables come to Scientists for treat
ment, and are healed.
Christian Scientists are miSrepreSent-
ed on the subject of reporting contag-
ion. | have advised families to report
such cases. One of the leading Scien-
fists in this city told me she recently
refused TO treat a family until they re-
ported the case of contagion. DR.. Ke-
Ugh. the health commissioner, is in a
position TO know, and he very kindly
states that with one or two exceptions
Scientists have reported contagion.
DR.. Wilcox has well said that we
nave had an epidemic of scarlet fever
every fall for years, anyway 1t is
an insidiOus form of persecu-
ion for any physician to seek TO place
he spread of this error on the neglect
If Christian Scientists. The fact is that
Christian Science is preventing the
spread of contagion more than any
'ther agency. As certainly as Chris
ian Science has healed thousands, just
10 certain it has prevented other thou ;
lands from falling under contagious
Iilme2ts.
Ignorance of mental therapeutics is {
10 argument against it. This age is t
urning rapidly from matter to mind ;
or cause and remedy. The growing (
popularity of Christian Science healing '
nd of non-drugging healers is the ]
andwriting on the WALL Some of the I
Methods of opposition adopted by the
rugging systems would lead Us TO be- |
eve they have interpreted this proph- I
cy, and see the gravity of the situa- 5
ion. '
No Christian Scientist or anyone else &
hould ever send their children TO school c
r church while under a contagious t
ilnent- I
No Christian Scientist or anyone else
noutd expose their nelSnDorS 10 con- i
agious ailment To do so is a viola t
on of human government, and is not
ecessary in any sense to successfully I
We and practice Christian Science. C
1t is fact that MANY forms of con- c
lgion are so mild that physicians al a
Nv much freedom, and in some in n
ances have not required a flag put o
p. If Christian Scientists take the "
lme liberty they are held up as inten- t
onal vfolators of the law by some. I
We are aware that many physicians
} not join in this petty persecution. G
nd we are also in a position to- know L
hereof we speak when we say that r
any physicians have been consistent b
Tough and magnanimous enough to L
nd people to Christian Scientists to c.
= treated. This is the right state of p
fairs, and it will continue to grow I'M Y
there is a kindly relation estab- d.
she'd. OF
Progress in every age has come about c
? departing from the old customs and d
stems. LEWIS 3. COATES. p
CENTpY,S NEW hCPlRAT II