Article January 25, 1993 Issue

Preventing seasonal diseases

Spiritually understanding what it means to be a child of God brings freedom from disease.

Joanne Ward Humbert

When I was a young mother, for several years I suffered regularly from the flu and laryngitis. Just as soon as the local newspaper announced a flu epidemic in our community, I joined "the club."

As a student of Christian Science, I had either heard about or witnessed what seemed to me to be remarkable examples of divine protection from accidents. And so I asked myself why I wasn't making a concerted effort to apply the truths of God and man that heal and save to the prevention of disease.

I spent a number of months diligently studying the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy to gain a greater understanding of my real identity as God's perfect, spiritual child. I found this statement in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany by Mrs. Eddy: "Unless you fully perceive that you are the child of God, hence perfect, you have no Principle to demonstrate and no rule for its demonstration."

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