One dictionary definition of the word "posture" is "a mental and spiritual attitude." As the world's need of spiritual healing becomes more evident and more deeply felt—and this is surely what the signs of these times portend—we should examine the posture of The Mother Church in responding to this need. What is the mental and spiritual attitude of Christian Scientists toward the world, and to what degree does this attitude determine the growth of the Christian Science movement?
We cannot escape the fact that the response to spiritual healing, as practiced in Christian Science, is largely conditioned by the thought of Christian Scientists. Their attitude becomes part of the environment in which the stranger may have his first encounter with spiritual healing. This carries through until the newcomer himself joins with Christian Scientists in generating this environment, or is so repelled by it that he drops the whole idea.
It's easy to declare that relevance is the key to a genuine response to spiritual healing. Men must awake to the relevance of this healing to their own daily needs. But to the Christian Scientist, this may simply mean that our truth relates to their problem. That is, if the world will only come to Christian Science, and accept it, solutions to all the world's problems will appear.
