Editorial October 4, 1947 Issue

LET US HAVE A CHANGE OF HEART!

John Randall Dunn

What a boon to the human family is the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy! In these days, over air waves, in general conversation, and in the press, are we not being overfed with mortal mind's endless chatter about heart trouble, faulty blood pressure, and the like? Can this persistent medical propaganda fail to instill fear in the thinking of thousands of mortals and induce many of the ills the mistaken propagandist seeks to overcome? A Latin proverb wisely states, Qui medice vivit misere vivit (Who lives medically lives miserably). With what joy, then, one may read Science and Health and find his thought turning to God, to things of the Spirit, and to the cheering consciousness that with the spiritualization of thought one can be master rather than victim of disease.

Does not the opening chapter of the Bible tell us that man is made in his Father's image and given dominion over all the earth? Here is the golden thread woven throughout Mrs. Eddy's sublime message. In the first chapter of Genesis, creation is declared good. Like begetting like, the First Cause must also have been good. In this picture of primeval harmony, where is there a place for man's victimization by hopeless disease?

But, may interpose someone, was not this before man's fall? Here comes the intrepid Leader of the Christian Science movement with the declaration that the image and likeness of God never fell from his high spiritual estate. Nothing ever happened to or changed the man spoken of in the Bible's first record of creation. In the second chapter, materialism with its sin and discord, its Adam and Eve, begins to appear upon the scene only after a mist goes up from the earth.

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