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Obviously one of the worst taunts that may be thrust at a Christian Scientist is to claim that Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy used anesthetics at the times she was suffering, approaching death. Recently that taunt was made by a Christian Scientist. It was not denied...
...informed, Mrs. Eddy did not, at any time after 1866,** believe in the use of any drug as a curative agent in connection with the practice of Christian Science. Nor did she at any time after she became a Christian Scientist, either use a drug or allow one to be used for her, except as she employed, in a few instances, an anesthetic for the purpose of temporary relief from extreme pain...
Into the welter of sensationalism aroused about a scientist who is reported to believe in "special creation". Professor Mather strikes a calm and refreshing note in his article in today's CRIMSON. His careful study of the paper which gave rise to the exciting story shows it to be little more than a reformulation of the mutation theory of evolution. It is not Man who is the "special creation" but the whole vertebrate kingdom. Mr. Clark's unorthodoxy, evidently, is merely that he cannot trace any evolutionary relationship between the lowest from of fish and the invertebrate kingdom...
...gradual education, and the press can do its share by being as informative as possible. To be sure, there is no particular sensation in the fact that a scientific man believes in evolution, but just because newspapers want exciting headlines is no excuse for misconstruing what a scientist really does say. The press can do its best for the progress of science by emphasizing the dominant truth of its facts rather than making use of spectacular but misleading flourishes...
...quite possible that he has a workable religion of his own. Most educated men have. But if the professor pretends to be a scientist, he might find it more tactful to confine his oratory to subjects on which he really does know the facts...