Christian Scientists, understanding God's allness, His omnipotence and omnipresence, and the nothingness of everything unlike Him, deny the reality of matter and thereby are being regenerated and healed.
When I was ten, my parents moved to a mountain ranch where the kitchen and living room were papered with the cardboard mats from The Christian Science Monitor, and one room had a corner piled high with back issues of The Christian Science Journal, the Christian Science Sentinel, and the Monitor.
When a black man, a friend of mine, who had a limited education, applied for defense work during wartime, the interviewer was impressed by his penmanship.
Much is said and written today about control of the population explosion and limiting the numbers in families; but what about the people who do not have children at all and long for them?