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 uted to the checking and prevention of disease, and thus to the longer life of the individuals of the community.

These are facts which can be proved by the most competent testimony of trained minds. Into what an abyss would we be plunged, if we were to give up these hard-earned boons of years of patient investigation and labor, for the doubtful offerings of an uninformed and misguided sect of ultra-emotionalists? Can we afford to lose the priceless benefits we have attained, and are still attaining? Can we ever permit such substitution? Can we sit still and allow the profession of medicine, which contains some of the brightest intellects, the most devoted and unselfish characters, the noblest and most steadfast souls, to be assailed, to have its means of well-doing threatened; when we know it should be protected, for the sake of all it has procured for humanity? And, finally, can we continue to allow the health of the community to be menaced by the ridiculous incompetency which would overthrow these our benefactors?

Thousands and millions of bereavements would ensue, if we were to be engulfed by this insanity of Christian Science; and the headstones of those