I have read your editorial of March 31, in which you suggest that a competent experimenter conduct a series of experiments to test Christian Science as a healing agent, said experiments to have "no bearing whatever on the merits of Christian Science as a religion," and I ask space in your valuable paper to give some reasons against the feasibility of such a step.
To make them good and healthy citizens, the school children of this country need instruction in but one thing, right living, which includes right thinking.
What
wonderful reassurance of our faith is contained in that far-reaching promise of the Master, "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
From
earliest childhood, that is, after I was old enough to wonder about things which I read or heard, I was greatly impressed by a statement in the third chapter of the first book of Samuel: "There was no open vision.
There
is only one way in which the human race can become "like-minded," and that is by becoming divine-minded; by patiently emerging from the chaos of the carnal mind, so called, into the perfect order of that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus.
In
that classic and successful Christian Science treatment which resulted in the healing of Job, Elihu instructed his patient almost at the outset that "God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not;" and Cowper must have had a hint of the same truth when he sang,—
There
seems to be a disposition upon the part of some who are not thoroughly informed as to what Christian Science is and what it includes, to question or doubt as to the possibilities of any one's receiving help or healing through what is called "absent treatment.
