The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-28
SCIENTIFIC, No RS FROM THR EE
MEDICAL JOURNALS

The Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal, of repute in the east, has been
denouncing Christian Science as
strange, -nonsensical fanaticism." The
Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal
ndorses what the Boston medical con-
temporary has to say 1t says:
What Boston is to the north as a
centre for this peculiar sect of people,
Atlanta is to the south, in a similar re-
,ation. Strange, deluded people TO be
led away by such strange, ~nOnsensical
fanaticism! But religious craze is the
most n~Onsensical of all ~insanities, and
we judge hat there will be insane peO-
pie as long as the world shall last.
Those who die under the administration
Of the Christian Science faith, believe
that such a death is that of a martyr.
and the survivors go on rejoicing that
enc more has been added to a righteous
band. Only in The last few months has
the death of a victim been ~chrOniciei
in the daily newspaper in Atlanta, who
refused to change a Spiritual admins
tratiCn" for a physician in good stand
ing
In England, Harold Frederic, perhaps
the most gifted American novelist liv-
ing, of this generation, died from
this sort of science, as has been already
published time and again. The Boston
Nj. and S. Journal gives an account Of
another death at the hands Of the same
science" of a prominent gentleman in
England. 1t says:
During the same month, the death
of another gentleman of consider able
education and social position, Major
Cecil Lester, instructor at the Sand
h,,ret DA-o1 AT;li+an- Dl1a~ 49,,
in England, whilst under the absent
and present treatment of another fe-
male Christian Scientist, a Miss Grant;
this case has also attracted much at
tentiOn and is the subject of an editor
ial in the Lancet" under the title of
Unchristian Nescience."
The able n widely reputed London
Lancet thinks Christian Science" a
misnomer. OF the conduct of the wo-
man in the court who attended Major
Lester, the Lancet says:
Mrs. Grant old the jury that she
gave no material remedy to alleviate
the pain. Where was the treatment?
Mrs. Grant told the jury that she had
had no experience with peritonitis; yet
she commenced her treatment directly
she got the telegram and before she
had seen the patient. Where was the
l oSA1Al~S &hAS. OAoh N1h4lS up IL
right thought of the omnipotence and
love of God, told the jury hat she did
| not believe hat suffering was sent by
| God, and she contended that Jesus
| Christ never sent the sick to physi-
| cians. If the agony at Cavalry fol-
| mans redemption was a God-sent real
| ity, and f The miraculous healer told
| the Pharisees that they that be whole
need not a physician, but they that are
| SICK" where is the Christianity
| of the Christian Scientists?
In an almost f1attering way
he, as it were, stands in" with God
or as coroner Romonieu bluntly put il
at the inquest, he tries to usurp tbs
special power which Christ had" w
feel itsfurther, TO be our duty TO poin'
out that apart from evils which may
result TO individual members OF tn
community from it, the Christian
Science treatment is neither more mol
less than a fin de steele fad, a drawing,
room cult and hat it is the counterpart
of h culpable negligence which ha:
brought the peculiar people of the les:
educated classes within the range an
operation of the criminal law Of tht
country"