Word: cisler
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...years ago on Long Island, Mrs Lucy F. Kirk, 54, was driving with her son Payton when their automobile collided with one driven by George Cisler The Cisler automobile was damaged. A doctor examined Mrs. Kirk, found her apparently seriously injured. A Christian Scientist, she declined medical attention summoned, instead, a paid healer to pray over her and read from Mary Bakei Eddy's Science & Health. Mrs. Kirk made what looked like a complete recovery but later she said she suffered from headaches, a pain in the nose and tremors of the left hand. She had made good money...
...find that she denied the ministrations of a medical practitioner, through a stubborn belief in the efficiency of prayer by a paid healer, and that her recovery was retarded thereby, you would be unfair to your oath if you charged Cisler with these injuries. If she claimed that there is no pain and that the way of relief is through the teachings of Mrs. Eddy you cannot make Cisler...
Pondering all this, the jury decided that Mrs. Kirk's pains were unreal, hence had no place in court. Instead of awarding her $10,000, the twelve good men and true ordered her to pay George Cisler $75 for damages to his automobile...
...land there is a one-man Christian Science Committee on Publication, whose duties as laid down by Mrs. Eddy include correcting unfavorable statements about Christian Science in the Press. Last week all the New York Committee (William Wallace Porter) could think of to write the newspapers about the Kirk-Cisler suit was: "The consideration of this entire case . . . will doubtless bring into view the true definition of the term 'reality.' If this is done something worth while will have been accomplished...