Editorials

We all aim to be better healers and problem-solvers. We can be.

Healing in Christian Science involves, in its most radical sense, being born again— out of matter into Spirit. Improved human conditions always accompany mankind's gradual emergence from belief in error into the true consciousness of Love, until finally thought is wholly spiritualized and matter disappears.

When a Christian Scientist is called upon to pray scientifically for someone's healing, he is being asked to bring to bear upon the errors of the case the truth of being. The truth in every case is perfect God and perfect man, God the infinite Mind and man the reflection or idea.

Parachutes, fire escapes, locks and keys, safety belts in cars, gloves for taking hot dishes out of the oven—should we use them? Does use of such human precautionary devices conflict with the requirement of Christian Science to depend on God, divine Spirit, for our safety and healing? Mrs. Eddy writes, "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized.

Studying the Bible in the light of Christian Science is an adventure in discovery. We find to our joy that God is wholly good and that His plan for us is perfect harmony, invariable good.

Throughout the writings of Mary Baker Eddy one finds references to the healing power of unselfed love. On page 1 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, for example, we find this: "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God, a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love.

Christian Science reveals a spiritual sense of companionship that brightens and uplifts the human mind. It destroys the unhappy feeling of isolation or loneliness and frees one from dependence on other persons for completeness and well-being.

In moments of physical distress or helplessness few people are more welcome on the scene than a well-trained Christian Science nurse. Immediately there is a satisfying sense that conditions will begin to improve.

Some medical systems now recognize mental causes of physical symptoms and effect cures by correcting mental conditions. Christian Science goes much further.

Those who have accepted the teachings of Christian Science and are conscientiously putting them into practice have within them a growing religious faith that God is, as the Bible says, "a strong hold in the day of trouble. " Nah.