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This chapter #3 is comprised of 90 questions and answers.

  	    What course should Christian Scientists take in regard
27	to aiding persons brought before the courts for violation of
  	medical statutes? 

  	    Beware of joining any medical league which in any
30	way obligates you to assist — because they chance to be
  	under arrest — vendors of patent pills, mesmerists,
 
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  1	occultists, sellers of impure literature, and authors of
  	spurious works on mental healing. By rendering error
 3	such a service, you lose much more than can be gained
  	by mere unity on the single issue of opposition to unjust
  	medical laws. 
 6	    A league which obligates its members to give money
  	and influence in support and defense of medical char-
  	latans in general, and possibly to aid individual rights
 9	in a wrong direction — which Christian Science eschews
  	 — should be avoided. Anybody and everybody, who
  	will fight the medical faculty, can join this league. It is
12	better to be friendly with cultured and conscientious
  	medical men, who leave Christian Science to rise or fall
  	on its own merit or demerit, than to affiliate with a wrong
15	class of people. 
  	    Unconstitutional and unjust coercive legislation and
  	laws, infringing individual rights, must be "of few days,
18	and full of trouble." The vox populi, through the provi-
  	dence of God, promotes and impels all true reform; and,
  	at the best time, will redress wro...ngs and rectify injus-
21	tice. Tyranny can thrive but feebly under our Govern-
  	ment. God reigns, and will "turn and overturn" until
  	right is found supreme. 
24	    In a certain sense, we should commiserate the lot of
  	regular doctors, who, in successive generations for cen-
  	turies, have planted and sown and reaped in the fields
27	of what they deem pathology, hygiene, and therapeutics,
  	but are now elbowed by a new school of practitioners,
  	outdoing the healing of the old. The old will not patronize
30	the new school, at least not until it shall come to under-
  	stand the medical system of the new. 
  	    Christian Science Mind-healing rests demonstrably on
 
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 1	the broad and sure foundation of Science; and this is
  	not the basis of materia medica, as some of the most skil-
 3	ful and scholarly physicians openly admit. 
  	    To prevent all unpleasant and unchristian action — as
  	we drift, by right of God's dear love, into more spiritual
 6	lines of life — let each society of practitioners, the matter-
  	physicians and the metaphysicians, agree to disagree, and
  	then patiently wait on God to decide, as surely He will,
 9	which is the true system of medicine. 
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