To rightly appraise the Christian Science sanatoriums accredited by the Department of Care of The Mother Church in Boston, Massachusetts, we need a right understanding of their function.
Seeing these sanatoriums merely as places where Christian Scientists go to be treated for the ills of the flesh by mental, or drug-less, methods, rather than by medical methods, is not the correct view of them.
Our sanatoriums compassionately provide a special place where, if care at home is not available, healing, or the unfoldment to human thought of the divine idea of man as spiritual, made in God's likeness, can be more effectually sheltered and forwarded than would be possible elsewhere.
