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ginning of June her condition was so bad that her husband pre- 

 vailed upon her to see a physician, who examined her and found 

 her hopelessly ill with consumption. Another physician examined 

 her and reached the same conclusion. She then turned " longingly 

 and earnestly to the religion in which she had been brought up." 

 Two weeks after, she died, " asking the prayers of her co-religion- 

 ists in behalf of herself, her husband, and her children." 



Mrs. Eddy declares that she "healed consumption in its last 

 stages, the lungs being mostly consumed"; that she "healed cari- 

 ous bones which could be dented with the finger " ; and that she 

 " healed in one visit a cancer that had so eaten the flesh of the 

 neck as to expose the jugular vein so that it stood out like a cord." 

 Judge Hanna has published statements to the effect that " can- 

 cer, malignant tumors, consumption, broken bones, and broken 

 tissues have been healed in Christian Science, without the assistance 

 of any material means whatever." Mr. Carol Norton, a Chris- 

 tian-Science lecturer, has publicly announced that Christian Sci- 

 ence has healed " locomotor ataxia, softening of the brain, paresis, 

 tumor, Bright's disease, cancer," etc. And many other Christian 

 Scientists have made like claims. Very well, then. Who are 

 these people that have thus been cured? What are their names? 

 Where do they live? How can they be found? Will Mrs. Eddy 

 and her followers submit these cases for scientific examination? 

 I and other investigators are asking, and have for years been asking, 

 these questions, and we are all of us still waiting for answers. 



The importance of all this is no doubt manifest. The healing 

 of disease is, we are told, the outward and visible evidence upon 

 which Christian Science expects to be judged and accepted. There- 

 fore the cult must stand or fall upon the results of an investiga- 

 tion of the healer's claims. " By their fruits ye shall know them." 



There are Christian Scientists who will say that these state- 

 ments of Mrs. Eddy and her associates must be taken upon faith 

 and as ipse dixit utterances. This is in the last degree silly. With 

 such statements faith has absolutely nothing to do. They are 

 solely matters for scientific inquiry. 



Every Christian Scientist may be a healer. A little child may 

 he a healer in Christian Science. The treatment is said to consist 

 in thinking, speaking, and writing. It is declared that no material 

 substances are used. The following oddity in mental processes is 

 here to be noted: A healer told her patient to take a certain drug 

 during her illness, and that she would then demonstrate the power 

 of Christian Science over this drug. 



The healer does not need to see his patient. He may, if he 

 will, treat " absently," by a species of thought transference. He 



