Article February 15, 1913 Issue

In response to a proclamation by our Governor that...

Charles D. Reynolds

Concord (N. H.) Monitor

In response to a proclamation by our Governor that Jan. 17 be observed throughout the state as Health day, and that on that day all citizens shall join in contributing something which will tend to give information and help to the people, and so promote greater interest in everything that makes for better health, the following is submitted:—

In summing up all the influences and forces that make for better health, private and public, religion is no longer to be ignored and left out. Christianity has again become a recognized factor as the foremost contributor of all toward the physical health of the people. Through the healing works of Christian Science, manifest on every side, Christianity has again, as at the time of its Founder, become identified with health, and the public thought on this subject has wonderfully changed. When Mrs. Eddy began her work of reestablishing primitive Christian healing forty years ago, she found almost no interest and no faith in it. Today it is recognized as a leading contributor toward the physical health and mental uplift of mankind; it is accepted as a fact by the broad-minded thinking men and women of today. Everywhere throughout the world are to be found living witnesses to the fact that Christianity, as Jesus taught it, heals every kind of sickness and prevents it.

Health day is, therefore, not a day set apart exclusively for the consideration of the claims of materia medica, or any one system or school of healing; it is broader than that. It is not a sectarian day, a day in which an elect class is wont to strengthen its own interests or pose as the autocratic legal guardian of the public health, claiming for itself the exclusive right to dictate and monopolize the healing of sickness. No such insinuation confronts us today. Health day belongs to every one who has something helpful to offer, something to contribute on the subject of health. Applied Christianity is serving well this age. By its undoubted cures, its success, Christian Science has quickened and sent forward a new public interest in health as man's legitimate heritage. It is assuring us that the time is coming when sickness and disease will be mastered, but not while we continue to live in a society addicted to ignorant and wilful sin.

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