Article March 14, 2011 Issue

Trust in God’s law of health

By Sarah Hyatt

A calm, Christian state of mind is a better preventive of contagion than a drug, or than any other possible sanative method; and the “perfect Love” that “casteth out fear” is a sure defense.

—Mary Baker Eddy,
Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 229

The phone rang one afternoon. I answered to hear a young mom saying that she had just returned from picking up her daughter from preschool. Signs had been placed all over the building warning parents that there was a case of measles at the school, and each parent should be alert to the danger of this contagious disease.