In a late issue of your paper I find that the president of the state board of health, in commenting on some opposition which his force has experienced in trying to get certain people to clean their premises, takes the opportunity to say that "the situation is not one to be met with absent treatment or Christian Science.
Spiritual healing is healing through the power of the divine Mind; therefore to limit this healing to functional disease is itself undertaking to limit the power of God.
In a recent issue you reported a discussion before the Saturday Lunch Club which contains the complaint that state legislatures refuse "to enact laws guarding the health of the people, because the Christian Scientists and League for Medical Freedom object to them.
To
attempt to embody in words the beneficial effect of Christian Science on mankind today, seems futile; it needs the inspired thought to grasp even in a slight degree the works accomplished by those loyal students whose lives have been and are consecrated to the healing and to the uplifting of humanity.
The
current theological conception that death sets free a man's soul from his body, and that this soul then awaits the judgment day to determine whether it is to partake of the joys of heaven or be banished to the tortures of hell, often haunts those who are beginning to study Christian Science, for we cannot at once rid ourselves of our old, hampering beliefs.
It
is being daily borne in upon Christian Scientists, very largely no doubt through the instrumentality of the Monitor, that the Christian Science movement is inevitably destined to take a leading place among the forces which are shaping the development of human thought in its emergence, socially and economically, from the restraints of the past into a better conception of liberty and freedom.
