Article July 12, 1930 Issue

The medical director of the Life Extension Institute,...

Ralph B. Textor, Committee on Publication for the State of Ohio,

Youngstown Vindicator

The medical director of the Life Extension Institute, whose notions concerning disease were quoted in an editorial of the Vindicator on August 8, evidently has a distorted impression of the teachings of Christian Science. His statement that perhaps its "germ of efficiency" is a "mere negation of this pessimistic mental attitude" expresses ignorance of Christian Science.

The fact that Christian Science does not accept—much less emphasize—the reality of disease; the fact that Christian Science teaches us to turn to God as infinite, ever present good, as Life itself, the great source and cause of health and all reality, instead of turning our attention constantly to the deceptive material aspects of disease, does not mean that this religion teaches a mere negation of a pessimistic mental attitude.

On the contrary, Christian Science teaches a positive and practical understanding of God as an ever present, allpowerful, and loving Father-Mother, whose children are the constant recipients of good from this spiritual parent. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. xi), "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation."

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