It is often asserted by representative physicians that the insistent efforts of medical societies to secure legislation in restraint of Christian Science practice, have been prompted by consideration for the public health, and the stock argument advanced is that the Christian Scientist's ignorance of anatomy, therapeutics, and symptomatology wholly unfits him to minister to the needs of the sick. While the unprejudiced have abundant reason to doubt the sincerity of this show of unselfish solicitude, one is continually surprised to find how responsive Christian believers both clerical and lay, are to this argument, despite the face that their concession must inevitably lead them to a position which involves either a denial of the spiritual healing on Christ Jesus and his disciples, or of the continuity and availability of divine law.
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