Show A CASE OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE the death in great britain of harold frederic the journalist previously noticed in these columns has aroused a storm against the adherents of so called christian science the coroners jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against a member of the household of the deceased man and also against the christian scientist who treated him according to the rules of the sect instead of giving him medical aid these two women will now be placed on trial on the grave charge made against them without doubt the case will be followed with interest both in great britain and here owing to the prominence of mr frederic Fre frederic as well as to the great number of believers in the science of which at is supposed he was a member opinions may differ as to the right of the law to dictate to patients in the matter of medical treatment but on the folly of the philosophy that calls itself christian science at least as far as it endeavors to account for the existence of physical ailments there can be no two opinions here to Is a scrap of that science you say gay a boil is painful but that is impossible for matter without mind is not painful the boil simply mant manifest your belld bele in pain through in flam mation land and swell swelling and you call this belief a boll boil now administer mentally to your patient a high attenuation of truth on this subject and it will soon cure the boll boil the fact that n can not exist where there to is no mortal mind to feel it is a proof that this so called mind makes its own pain that is its own belief in pain the theory may not be the concern of the law and the courts but it if a theory is carried out in practice and it is found to involve a danger to the community it becomes the proper subject of legislation and certain restrictions will be considered necessary public opinion in great britain has been aroused lately against christian science on this ground and the probability is that there will be much opposition |