Article March 3, 1973 Issue

Radical Medicine

ELIZABETH WOOLLEY

Some people identify Christian Scientists casually: "Oh, they're the people who don't take medicine." They may go on to ask, "If their method of healing is prayer, why don't they help it along with a little material aid?"

Now, I would like to join that conversation to show the line of reasoning the Christian Scientist brings to bear upon his problems, how, in fact, the power of God becomes his only needed medicine. He does indeed take that corrective. It is potent. It is radical. It is effective.

The medicine most effective to solve anyone's trouble has to hit the trouble at its cause. The troubled body takes its cue from the troubled mind that governs it. And the healing process is more basic than the approach suggested by "Oh, yes, you cure the doubled-up fist by relaxing the mind."

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