When the World published two weeks ago a list of thirty-two children who had died of diphtheria and other diseases during the last thirteen years while being treated by Christian Science practitioners, it moved Virgil O.
From
time immemorial the world has sighed for peace and plenty, for justice and equity, and has striven to attain these human ideals by various methods, all more or less unsatisfactory.
When
we take into consideration the fact that disease is at bottom an erroneous mental condition, a mere belief, we can understand that it is possible to substitute a belief in health for a belief in sickness and thereby effect an apparent cure.
Christian Science declares God to be Spirit, Soul, Mind, Life, Truth, Love; the sole cause of the universe, the only self-existent, all-knowing, all-wise Being.