My attention has been called to a statement appearing in The Searchlight and purporting to come from the office of the state superintendent of public instruction, to the effect that Christian Scientists are opposing the physical examination of children in the public schools as a preliminary to physical training.
A great many persons have had the erroneous idea that Christian Scientists' charity is of such a highly ethereal and ultraspiritual sort that in most exemplifications it might run the danger of starving the needy while treatment was resorted to in expectation of magically derived supply.
The Press reported a former rabbi's address at a local Bible Conference in which he told of his conversion to Christianity and referred to his experience in Christian Science, the teachings of which, he tells us, he renounced and then "began to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.
An otherwise commendable article in a recent issue of the Statesman erred greatly in its assertion that "Christian Scientists have a theory that if you are real sick and believe that you are real well, real well you are and not sick.
In an interesting and appreciative account of a Christian Science lecture recently given in Portsmouth, a writer in Chat speaks of the phenomenal progress in the world of this religion, which "has proved itself to be a blessing and a joy to vast numbers of people for its healing and regenerating effects.
It should be understood that Christian Science is not faith cure, nor are Christian Science healings the result of the commonly accepted thought about mind over matter; but Christian Science healing is accomplished through the power of divine Mind, or God, over the human mind.
