Editorial July 29, 1961 Issue

Healing Sin as Well as Disease

Ralph E. Wagers

There is a great hope, bordering almost on expectancy, that through physical research and experimentation the burden of disease will ultimately be removed from the people. This hope is based on the premise that disease is a phenomenon of matter and is the result of natural causes. But to the degree that this approach to disease leaves sin out of its calculations, it is like cutting off a weed at the surface instead of pulling it out by the roots.

A simple but penetrating statement of what sin is will be found in a verse of a well-known hymn in the Christian Science Hymnal (No. 383),

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