The frequent use of the word sedative in the world today challenges the thoughtful. Often the expected result of a material sedative is the coming of sleep, of temporary forgetfulness of some undesirable sensation or circumstance. However, those in need of help are in need of more than sleep and forgetfulness. There is need for the healing of the condition which demands relief.
Christian Science brings true calm and tranquillity by turning thought Godward to gain a better understanding of the source of all true harmony. God, divine Mind, is infinite good, and man, the image and likeness of God, is forever at one with Him. Understanding God produces inspired activity and joy. Peace comes through one's awakening to man's precious heritage of freedom from sin, disease, and death, because of his forever sonship with God. This is the scientific way to peace and happiness, the way of Truth, not the way of false belief in the comfort of matter, a way that engulfs one in the mesmerism of physical sense.
In the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, there is a marginal heading, "Sedatives valueless." Science and Health, p. 416; The accompanying text shows that though a patient is put to sleep by belief in a drug, his ailment is unchanged until the false belief that produced the suffering is corrected. The question is then asked, "Where is the pain while the patient sleeps?"
