At Toronto, Canada, recently a Christian Scientist was applied to for treatment by a man already condemned by medical science to speedy death. He improved under the treatment, but receiving a visit from his minister, the latter urged calling a doctor. The man refused, but the minister insisted, and one was called. When the doctor came he said that it was the end, and what he had expected for over a year. The patient thus abandoned to mortal belief, of course succumbed to its law. When the doctor found he had been taking Christian Science treatment, he said the man might have lived a year or two, but for that.
A coroner's inquest followed and the Scientist was arrested, and placed under bonds pending action by the Grand Jury. The Grand Jury failed to find a bill. The Scientist who reports the case to the Journal, comments on the conduct of Theology and Medicine who went into the man's house, and announced the law of belief, thus forcing him out of this plane of consciousness, and asks the pertinent question: "I wonder if Peter or Paul, or any of Jesus' disciples would have gone into a man's house, and told him he was dying"; no! we find that when they went to persons dead in belief, they said "She is not dead, but sleepeth."
The publicity given to the case, judging by the following comment of a Toronto paper, has had a good effect on public sentiment:—
