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an entire paper fit for publication in a medical jonrnal, or in any- 

 other magazine or periodical. The questions submitted touch the 

 entire subject of Christian Science, both in its theology and thera- 

 peutics. These questions can be answered only in one way so that 

 they can be understood, and that is by just such study of the Bible 

 and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures as the earnest, 

 sincere Christian Scientists are giving them every day of their 

 lives, and have been for years. When we think of the helps pro- 

 vided by our leader, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, for her own stu- 

 dents in arriving at a correct interpretation and putting in prac- 

 tice the teachings of these text-books, such as the publications es- 

 tablished by her, the Bible Lessons made up of selections from the 

 Bible and our text-book, constituting the sermons for our service 

 in all the Christian-Science churches; the many auxiliaries she has 

 published and is publishing in further illucidation of the text-books 

 — ^when we stop to consider that even those of her students who 

 may be considered the most advanced are as yet infants in the 

 understanding and ability to demonstrate the truth contained in 

 these text-books, can we not easily see, and will not your friend the 

 doctor at a glance see, the utter futility of attempting to answer 

 his questions so as to make the answers intelligible to the medical 

 profession and their readers? I admire greatly the kindly spirit 

 manifested by the doctor and those for whom he is acting,* and the 

 entire fairness, from their standpoint, of the questions submitted, 

 but this does not relieve the difficulty of the situation. I there- 

 fore return the doctor's questions, with many thanks in behalf of 

 our leader and the cause for the impartial spirit manifested. 



" Yours in Truth, 



"S. J. Hanna." 



I wrote Judge Hanna a note of thanks, and in reply received 

 a letter in which he stated: "I should have been very glad if I 

 could have seen my way clear to answer your questions in such a 

 way as could have been intelligible and satisfactory. But it was 

 impossible for me to do so." 



IsTow, all this seems to me much worse than preposterous. I 

 fail utterly to see why he who asks the question, " Do you isolate 

 a patient suffering from an infectious disease?" would have to 

 spend months or years in Nirvana-like abstraction before he would 

 be able to appreciate an answer to it. No doubt Judge Hanna, 

 who is evidently a lawyer, could, if he chose, tell the reason why. 



To all who had been " healed in Christian Science " whom I 



* I had arranged with the editor of the New York Medical News for the publication in 

 that journal of a paper on Christian Science, and had so informed Mrs. Stetson. 



