Editorial August 10, 1946 Issue

What Can We Do About the Weather?

John Randall Dunn

Flashes of wit and humor again and again appear in the works of the beloved Leader of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy. Here is a delightful bit from her "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 339): "If people would confine their talk to subjects that are profitable, that which St. John informs us took place once in heaven, would happen very frequently on earth,— silence for the space of half an hour."

Would it not seem that if discussion of the weather and the state of one's health were to become taboo, a vast majority of the population would become mute? "Is this warm enough for you?" or, "Isn't this heat wicked?" exclaims a would-be Job's comforter when the mercury mounts. And who is not familiar with the oft-quoted quip that people are always complaining about the weather, but nobody does anything about it?

Now a Christian Scientist should know that there is something he can do about it. First, he should learn how to order his thinking and his speech in connection therewith. Certainly matters are not helped by iterating and reiterating how hot or how cold it is. To the student of Christian Science, atmosphere is becoming a thing of thought. Heat and cold are mental concepts. Do not the Scriptures aver that as one "thinketh in his heart, so is he"? Who has not seen proofs of this when a mortal allows fear of heat to prostrate him or fear of cold to play havoc with his well-being?

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