Article June 11, 1910 Issue

THE PUBLIC DEBT TO CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

W. D. MC CRACKAN, M.A.

All loyal citizens are interested in the preservation of public health, and none more so than Christian Scientists. Perhaps these are even more solicitous about such preservation than most people, because they so thoroughly understand the modus operandi of disease in propagating itself n unseen ways unless it be scientifically checked and destroyed.

Mrs. Eddy explains that "disease arises, like other mental conditions, from association" (Science and Health, p. 154). The cause, process, and propagation of all disease is mental, therefore the method of mastering it must also be mental. The recognition of this fact will presently dawn upon the minds of medical practitioners, as it has already dawned upon the minds of Christian Science practitioners. In the mean time, as Christian Scientists are at work, healing sin and sickness in themselves and others, they are thereby helping the members of the communities in which they live. The protective and preventive powers of Christian Science are not generally known to the public, but they are in operation, nevertheless, and cannot fail to be appreciated before long.

Did the general public only know the salutary effect which the right thinking of a body of Christian Scientists exerts upon the health of a community, we should hear no more about attempts to interfere with Christian Science practice. Ignorance of the power of right ideas for good can alone account for such misjudged attempts. Indeed, who shall adequately repay Christian Scientists for their unseen watch and vigil over a community beset on all sides by dangers which it does not discern an subject to attacks which it does not understand? One hears a good deal about the contagion of disease; but little about the danger of diseased thinking, or about the healing influence of wholesome, healthy thinking. Yet the latter is more powerful than the former, as good overwhelms and over-tops evil.

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