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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1371, 23 February 1912, Page 6

reporting, as in the ease of a telegraphic dispatch irom London, published lioro some monllis ago, of a woman prosecuted for abuse of .a servant, and adding that the woman was a Christian Scientist. Anyone at all familiar with the'teachings of Christian (Science, the. very basis-- of which is love to God and won, would know at once that there wos a grave mistako in tlio report, and 1 have just received authentic information that this woman reported herself, to Hie authorities "as of an entirely different religious belief from-Christian Science. But unfortunately those unfamiliar with tho teachings of Christian Science receive wrong impressions from such-articles. Christian Science practitioners do receivo pay for their treatments, just as '■medical practitioners do, but only^for their own support while devoting their time and efforts to the work of relieving the sick and sorrowing, ami not to'carry on tho church organisation, while it is true that such an expression ot a sense of justice and gratitude on the part ot the patient will react favourably on.tho ■physical condition, it is-also .true that a genuine Christian Science practitioner will labour just as faithfully on behalf of "infirmary patients, and that the lat- • ter are not "under a different influence or treatment," 'as the practitioner • in question "was "understood to affirm. •There is but one kind of, treatment m Christian .Science. Christian Scientists do'not ignore "material matters bcioro their eyes,"- if by this is meant material discords, such as sin, disease or sorrow, but are. ever alert to. detect and strive to correct anv such conditions. • It - a needless to comment on the number, of .deaths caused by tuberculosis under medical attention, and seldom would the school of medicine employed bo called a ' murderous scienco" because it failed to meet a particular case. On the other hand, Christian Science has cured many, cases of this disease in its advanced stages, and many thousands aro giving thanks for the aid received ot the ninth hour through the teachings of Christian Science, and who have been restored from this and all other forms of disease by. the correct understanding of Him "whom to .know- aright is life eternal."—l am, etc., ALICE K. ITETZ. February J.