The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-05
waAr q cRKEsrFAN scrENcEs
This Must NE known Before the suDJect
Can He Discussed ~InteIhgently.

IAN Eoe UloCun8CB WtCNhHCuNys
To TINE EDIToR or THE sUN-Sir: The
very Interesting 'letters OF Mr.. H.. Cornell
Wilson In TIRE Sun come NJ a bold challenge
to the intelligence Of your readers to solve
the much vexed mystery Of Christian Science
In the United States. Mr.. Wilson explains TO
your readers that there Ia something In
Christian Science which cures the effects OF
carb0lic acid thrown In the face and eyes OF q
girl. and also such q disease as locOmotor
atAxia.
Az to carbolic acid. Col. Newton, an AIDE
de-camp OF the Shah Of Persia and q physt-
clan. who 10 nov In New York. tells Of q boy
who one day. in the garden Of the Minister
OF Commerce in Teheran. was applying car
bolio acid to plants. A little Girl. thinking
the liquid in the can was water. threw 1t In
play at the boys face. The immediate re-
suit. IN the words OF Mr.. Wilson. was too
horrible to picture" Fortunately the boy
knew nothing or the effects Of the acid upon
the human body. and only cried In distress.
Col. Newton. who happened to be In the gar
den. fastened to the boys help. washed the
face with water. and in a few days the face.
which had been burned whlte with the acid.
Was perfectly well. There il no Christian
Science In Persia: as proof. therefore. Of the
benign effects OF Christian Science Mr..
Wilson'S carbolic acid story is very poor.
As for locomotor ataxia, I know personally
OF one case In the Northwest which was for
som years treated" bY q Christian Science
healer without any result whatever, and Mr..
Boulter does right in refusing To try Chris
tian Science upon such testimony as 10 Of
fered without further evidence Of a different
sort.
ere" to vhom naonle 20 10 he cuyed NJ dia-
eass The .rasdsrs rsCs the natiant With n
SniSe and n nsip ri small Ast tonrs9 shuts his
"a and fro M he sits Cross legged behind me
n.ti"rti enS ths co,,rtr~ Il SvII 81 stnriea ~
most wonderfuI cnres az aL0 ~ an e1ual
MN her ~ S.ih,rea 70 folIow facuselon "a
to them would he as futile "a to discuss the
chemical onaIity Of M Wilsons carboilc
acid ar the nature NJ the Iocomotor ataxia
which WA c,ired ten vaara ago
Ths fact r. this arg,,u snf from -cures-
whsn the one.tion 4. sho1t = avsts,, Ia en-
tirelv wrorS When nnsnnnorted Nv scis1ttSc
svstem in rnesf,on. and sEcb evidence in the
case or Christian Science has heen entirely
oyerIooked.
Now the ohaUenge In the intelligence Of
their abiiity To understand such evidence and
come To n concl,Iaion IN order that they NAV
have \ aound oninion 10 ernreaa when an The
one hand thew hear that Christian Science
il WORKING wonders and on the other thai il
is aggrayatine disease and causing deaths.
N n We are told in the wear iRsa Adiscov-
ered- aomething which she later named sChris-
tian Science And from mat daIe 70 this
day no promotor of the sdiscovery." incIud-
what the Sdiscoverv" Ia. b,It on IN other hand
80 much has been keraIded az M things that
are done 6y the "discoyervT hat the intelll-
gence OF the hubble has been stamneded TO
overIook the one ouestion mnon which the
whole story mnsf deoe0d namely. the thing
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