Science & Health

Optimism and health were almost palpable in Boston's First Church of Christ Scientist this week as 7,500 sound-bodied Scientists from all over the world met for their annual meeting.

A special message from the Mother Church's board of directors set the keynote: "Painless progress can be made by he individual and by humanity as a hole." A bushel of recent cases of Christian Science healing were read to the gathering--including total recovery from poliomyelitis, abdominal cancer, rheumatic ever, dislocated hips diagnosed as beyond recovery and accident injuries pronounced tal. No membership figures are ever issued, but what figures there were showed the faith to be flourishing; 34 new branches were established in 1952.

As president of the Mother Church for the coming year the board named the wife of an ex-president, grandmotherly. Michigan-born Mrs. Luther Phillips Cudworth, a practitioner* for the past 42 years. For a decade after her parents became Christian Scientists in Superior, Wis., Grace Cudworth took no interest. Then, after an operation, her mother brought her a copy of Founder Mary Baker Eddy's writings.

I got immediate relief through the reading of Science and Health," she says, "and I have been very well ever since."

* -I.e., an authorized null healer.

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