What course should Christian Scientists take in regard to aiding persons brought before the courts for violation of medical statutes?
Beware of joining any medical league which in any way obligates you to assist—because they chance to be under arrest— vendors of patent pills, mesmerists, occultists, sellers of impure literature, and authors of dangerous works on mind-cure. By rendering error such a service, you lose much more than can be gained by mere unity on the single issue of opposition to unjust medical laws.
A certain paper has agents, advocating a league which obligates its members to give their money and influence in support and defence of medical charlatans in general, and possibly to aid individual rights in a wrong direction,—which Christian Science eschews. Anybody and everybody, who will fight the Medical Faculty, can join this league. It is better to be friendly with cultured and conscientious medical men, who leave Christian Science to rise or fall on its own merit or demerit, than to affiliate with a class of people who have already done what they could do to disgrace the cause of Mind-healing.
