In the beginning I had the honor to meet Mrs. Stetson, the "pastor," or the "first reader," of the "First Church of Christ, Scientist," at 143 West Forty-eighth Street, New York city. I had prepared a number of questions concerning Christian Science which I wished to ask Mrs. Stetson. She preferred, however, not to answer them herself, but told me that she would be pleased to forward them to Mrs. Eddy. I then wrote out these questions and put them, together with a letter to Mrs. Eddy, very respectfully requesting her consideration of them, in Mrs. Stetson's hands. Mrs. Stetson then very kindly forwarded them to Mrs. Eddy. Among the questions which I asked were the following: Is the treatment of the sick a part of Christian Science? Upon what principles is the Christian Scientist's method of treatment founded? How do you define health? How do you define disease? When a patient presents himself to you, do you inquire concerning the causes of his illness? Do you investigate symptoms? (Symptoms, I stated, are the signs of disease.) Do you make diagnoses? (A diagnosis, I stated, is a consideration of symptoms by which one disease is distinguished from another or others.) In what does your treatment consist? In treating a patient, do you administer any material substance, and require that it be taken into the body as one would food? Do you consider cleanliness, good order, and the attainment of æsthetic effects in a patient's environment a part of treatment? Do you take any steps to isolate the patient sick of an infectious disease, or to protect those about the patient from the disease? Do you treat structural diseases, as cancer or locomotor ataxia? Do you consider you have cured such diseases? If so, how do you know you were treating a structural disease, such as cancer or locomotor ataxia? Would you treat cases of fracture of bones or violent injury? If so, what would you do in such cases? Will you give me the names of patients whom you have treated, with permission to inquire concerning their illnesses, your treatment of them, and the effects of your treatment upon them--upon the distinct understanding that their names are not to be published? Do you deny the existence of matter? In Science and Health it is stated that "all is mind, there is no matter." How is it possible, in treating disease, for you to separate mind from matter? Animals sometimes become sick; could they be cured by Christian-Science methods?