Driven
by the necessities of the case, both physicians and preachers are having much to say these days regarding the mental factor in the healing of disease.
Not
infrequently would-be clever critics take occasion to make Christian Scientists the butt of raillery, if not ridicule, by an apparently legitimate inquiry as to why they should put forth such earnest effort to overcome sin and sickness, if it be true that these things are mere "old wives' fables.
At
the present time as never before, the most strenuous efforts are being made not merely to lessen disease and vice, but to annihilate them, and for this evidence of human progress Christian Scientists rejoice, even though the methods employed may not be those which they consider the best.
In
reading the testimonies of healing received at this office for publication, the editors have been greatly impressed with a feeling that, next to the spiritual uplift which the study and practice of Christian Science have given the writers of these testimonies, the most important thing is that a great weight of fear has been lifted from their shoulders and they realize that they are indeed free.
There
are many who criticize what they mistakenly suppose to be the teachings of Christian Science, because they have never thought of man as a spiritual being.
In
any catalogue of the known obstacles to spiritual progress contentment-without-increase would certainly find place well toward the head of the list.
The
question of medical legislation in one or another of the various phases it annually assumes, is, as usual at this season, receiving the attention of the unprejudiced newspapers of the country, and we note among them an editorial in the Toledo.
It
is possible that very few persons have the highest motives when they begin to obey God's laws,—they may fear the consequences of wrong-doing; yet even in such cases it might be said that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.