On Thursday, July 23, a hero passed from earth's battle-ground to another, from whose bourn none may return. When we reflect how the nation mourns his departure, we are filled with deeper regret than even while he was with us, that the best possible ministrations were ruled out of the efforts to save him for a riper experience among us. That "many of our best men and women have passed away who might have been saved by Christian Science," is still true as when uttered in Science and Health many years ago.
Yet we mourn not as those without hope; the day is surely hastening for wiser and wider service to mankind; and, sometime, blind faith in the saving power of material laws will be supplanted by clear understanding of the superior power of mind.
The decision of Materia Medica has been carried out; the human mind said, from the outset, "Cancer will kill the man:" this mind has triumphed, its verdict is obeyed; but the divine Mind was the one to have decided the case, whose word over all is even now final—disease did not kill the man; he lives, and is out of the fear that false views inculcate. God grant the bereaved family find consolation in the facts of divine science, over and above these mortal beliefs, urged on by ignorance and bigotry.
