WORLD PROBLEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 16, 19 July 1939, Page 6

WORLD PROBLEMS

FINDING SOLUTION

THE SPIRITUAL ASPECT

Thousands of Christian Scientists, who met in Boston, Massachusetts, recently, challenged a troubled world to change its perspective from a material to a spiritual basis in its search for release from pressing economic and political problems.

The occasion for the great influx of the followers of Mary Baker Eddy was the annual meeting of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist.

Through an entire round of addresses and reports from the field, the power of the Christ, Truth, to lift individuals above the ills of human sense was acknowledged and *his same spiritual power was recommended for the healing of the nations and the establishment of a permanent world peace.

Looking beneath the surface ripples of troubled international relationships apparent in the world today, the Christian Science Board of Directors saw the deep-running currents of spiritual progress "keeping alive the vital realisation of spiritual truth which Christian Scientists must always nurture, whether their work be along the specific line of healing or in the Important channels connected with home, church, business, and government."

Various reports presented cited specific instances of spiritual enlightenment actively at work among " the nations today. One revealed that Europe, seething centre of turbulent political upheavals, is also a fertile field for spiritual growth.

Summarising the distinct evidences of a continued reaching out for Truth, the directors stated: "We are in a position to know, and are glad to report, that at no time in the history of the Christian Science movement has the healing work been carried on with greater success or along broader lines than it is today."

Continuing, the directors said: "Surely in this period of unsettled world conditions our prayers are most essential, and each one of us should ask himself if he is doing all that he can to meet the aggressive suggestions of error, which would try constantly to intrude, and if he is working to help the generally accepted material spiritualise thought, thereby correcting beliefs."