Christian Science: As a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent . ave made but superficialinvestigations and who have started out withthe conviction that no organic disease couldbe cured by Christian Science. CHAPTEE IV MEDICAL EXPLANATIONS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCECURES CONSIDERED IN THE LIGHTOF TYPICAL CASES INCE we founded The Arena inthe autumn of 1889, to the pres-ent time, during the years whenthis review was under our edi-torial management, we do not call to mindmore than three instances where a paper ap-pearing in our pages called forth more favor-able letters or inquiries than were elicit
Christian Science: As a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent . ave made but superficialinvestigations and who have started out withthe conviction that no organic disease couldbe cured by Christian Science. CHAPTEE IV MEDICAL EXPLANATIONS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCECURES CONSIDERED IN THE LIGHTOF TYPICAL CASES INCE we founded The Arena inthe autumn of 1889, to the pres-ent time, during the years whenthis review was under our edi-torial management, we do not call to mindmore than three instances where a paper ap-pearing in our pages called forth more favor-able letters or inquiries than were elicited byour contribution in the November Arenaof 1908 on Christian Science and OrganicDisease. Many valued friends called at theoffice to discuss its contents, and fromCanada and various parts of the Republiccame letters expressive of new and gen-eral interest in the subject and asking forfurther facts, which we intimated could begiven in substantiation of the claims the general tenor of these letters andconversations with interested parties can best99. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE be summed up in the following expressionsby two of our readers. One friend said: Until reading yourpaper in The Arena for November, I had un-hesitatingly accepted the position which themedical profession and most writers in themagazines and newspapers have assumedwhen discussing cures said to have been madeby Christian Science practitioners,—namely,that the diseases were not correctly diag-nosed ; that though in many cases there mayhave been no intention on the part of thepatient to deceive or falsify, the conclusionswere due to loose thinking or intellectualmistiness; that though in many instances thecures, as Dr. Cabot observes, doubtless tookplace, they were not cures of organic dis-ease. I accepted without question the opin-ion of Dr. Cabot when he said, In my ownpersonal researches into Christian Sciencecures, I have never found one in whichthere was any good evidence that cancer,consumption, o
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