IT is an interesting fact that, reserved as are the many toward the teaching of Christian Science that the spiritual truth which gave Christ Jesus and his disciples such unmeasured vantage in their address to the human problem, is still available for the healing of sickness and sin, these same people grow more and more sure that the cure of human ills is wondrously furthered by a favorable mental predisposition and environment. They are quite indisposed to accept the possibility of spiritual healing, yet they readily concede the power of the human thought attitude and conditions to contribute to health.
Speaking of this, a prominent medical publication has recently called attention to "the extent to which such awakened emotions as hopefulness, courage, faith in the surgeon's skill, reliance on the physician's good prognosis, will turn the scale in favor of the patient's recovery." While offering no explanation of the philosophy of Christian Science healing, these attested facts supply a basis of reasoning which, if logically adhered to, must lead to the acceptance of its teaching, for if a consciousness of courage, of purity, of victory, and of joy conduces to health, it follows that the highest, most ideal thought, that of God and His kingdom, including man in His image and likeness, would prove the most remedial.
This point of view is certainly though slowly being adopted by many Christian physicians, who now speak of Christian Science in a kindly way, and even commend it to patients whom they have been unable to relieve. Such persons are, however, far afield in their concept and understanding of Christian Science. Their attention is yet centered on the significance of a human belief of good, and until they have come to distinguish between thought of God and God's thought, between reliance upon human mentality and reliance upon Christ, Truth, they have not even begun to apprehend the philosophy of this great reform.
