Editorial March 26, 1979 Issue

Scientific Christian healing

Naomi Price

Over the past few decades there has been increasing recognition of the fact that what we think influences the condition of our physical bodies. This century has seen a big change in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Whereas the mental condition of patients used to be largely ignored in attempts to cure their diseased bodies, today it is quite widely accepted that, at least to some extent, one's thought is responsible for the state of one's health, and that thought must be taken into account and helped to adjust to a healthier state in order to improve the body.

Concomitant with this awareness there has been a considerable quickening of interest in nonconventional methods of healing—in various modes of so-called spiritual healing within and without the Christian churches, as well as in meditation, biofeedback, hypnotism, and many other systems of mental adjustment. Some are more spiritual than others in their approach, and a careful examination of their procedures will usually reveal that those that are most closely and genuinely related to the worship of God and the practice of Christian teachings are both the most spiritual and the most successful.

The recent series of articles in The Christian Science Monitor, daily edition, on the subject of spiritual healing has outlined and discussed many of the currently popular healing movements— their methods, claims, and results. Readers should now be better equipped to judge for themselves how closely these systems approximate the methods and results of Christ Jesus, the greatest spiritual healer of all time, the inaugurator of the method of Christian healing that Christian Science reinstates.

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