Article September 2, 1950 Issue

REMEMBERING THE HUMAN RACE

NEIL MARTIN

AT a Wednesday evening testimony meeting in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, a woman said that she had been healed of a physical disorder upon reading, and thinking through, a news report that appeared in The Christian Science Monitor. Her testimony prompted several people in the congregation to inquire of her after the meeting the nature of the report and how the healing had been realized.

The news item, she said, had pointed up the conflicting world ideologies which seem to beset our time. She indicated that her healing had resulted as she resolved these conflicts in her own thought by seeing them as the age-old error having its origin in a belief in many minds, many gods, and therefore many nations, many races, and many warring opinions. She replaced this error with the truth contained in the Scriptures, and revealed to this age by Mary Baker Eddy in the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that there is one God and His wholly good creation, one Mind and its diverse but infinitely individualized manifestation. She had been healed, as countless others have been, when she became clearly aware of the unity always existing between God and man, in spite of the disunified and frequently chaotic physical appearance.

Christian Scientists are gratified to hear testimony of such a healing, for they know that at the very time the woman was being healed of her infirmity she was also participating in the healing of the nations. The truth she was declaring and acknowledging was blessing every individual consciousness everywhere which was open to receive it. That there should be an ever-expanding multitude of such healings was certainly Mrs. Eddy's motive establishing a daily newspaper. Speaking of the periodicals, she says in regard to this, her last-founded periodical (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353), "The next I named Monitor, to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent."

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