●   ●   ●    [were] in the Senate, for the bill, as on the former occasions, was called a House bill, and it had [already] passed the House. We were able to impress some of the best men with the justice of our plea for the right of Christian Scientists to choose whatever treatment they wished, and one of the ablest men who spoke that evening from the floor said that he belonged to the old school of medicine and if he were sick would call on a physician of that school, but that if he died under a doctor’s care, he would be “just as dead as if a Christian Scientist had prayed for him.