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Show ENGLISH OPINION ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE A Doctor's Tribute. To the Editor of the Daily Dispatch. Sir: The Rev. W. S. Swayne, in his paper on Christian Science, is reported to have said: "The failures of Christian Science are numerous and disastrous. It is responsible re-sponsible for failures which might have been treated with success by a doctor." I would like to call attention to the Wrecognized fact that in medical practice there are failures and that we have been accustomed to quietly accept such as Inevitable. In fact, it is believed that certain diseases are from the outset out-set bound to prove fatal. Is It such a matter of surprise, then, that Christian Scientists are not successful In every case? There have been four thousand years of medicine and about forty of Christian Science. However, my own experience on these points Is decidedly in favor of Christian Science as against medicine, and Jr write as a man who for nearly thirteen years was a general medical prae-titloner. Under the very best that medicine and surgery had to offer, my dyjghter, suffering from tubercular disease (Joints and lungs), was slowly ar3 steadily dying five years ago, los-Il,welght los-Il,welght and strength dally, and it Is (loe'to nothing else than Christian tfetence that I am able to say she lives oday a healthy, strong girl. This case Inould have been a failure under medi-'cine, medi-'cine, but ras proved a success under Christian Science. sain, under medicine a patient of mine was certainly, arfcl in much suffering, suf-fering, going down to her grave, with valvular disease of the heart, and corn- -t'licaiiuiiB. i inn i tr ttinu x v.uuiu- have-been failure in medicine became a complete success under Christian Science. Surgery had nothing better to offer a young man. who had disease of the bones of the knee Joint, than excision ex-cision of the diseased bones and Joint; thereafter, at best, a stiff, shortened limb. Naturally we would have ac- epted this measure' of success as a very good thin&. Yet under Christian Science treatment this man retains the whole joint in a perfect, healthy and active condition. When I first put Christian Science to the test with these eases I was not a believer, and knew practically nothing about it. I thought much as other medical men, until the proofs of the su-jienority su-jienority of Christian Science healing convinced me. The conclusion at which Mr. Swayne rrrlves. that "Christian Science leaves . l o room for works of mercy, spiritual or bodily, no reason to feed the hungry hun-gry or tend the sick, dying, and outcast." out-cast." is one with which I totally disagree, dis-agree, and I think the foregoing cases justify the position I take in thinking that Christian Science "does feed the hungry, tend the sick, dying and outcast." out-cast." Surely those who are left without with-out h : of relief from material means ran be classified in this category, and th.e Christian Science is relieving today. to-day. W. S. W. WILDING. M.R.C.S.. L.R. CP. Victoria Park. Manchester. London (Eng.) Daily Dispatch. |