Article February 2, 1899 Issue

What Fears of Human Mind have to do with Contagion

Waldo P. Warren

The following thoughtful article is taken from the Omaha World-Herald:—

The question is being asked on all sides, "What does Christian Science think of smallpox and vaccination?" And, "Is smallpox all imagination, too?" As many of these are honest and civil inquiries, they would seem to call for a civil explanation.

Under no circumstance does Christian Science depart from its well-established position that disease, of whatever name and nature, is a product of human fear, imaged forth on the body. As human fear is not a creator, its ghosts cannot be reasonably considered a part of creation, and therefore we say they are unreal. Most people misunderstand the scientific usage of the words "real" and "unreal." These words are used in an absolute and final sense, and not in the common colloquial sense. To speak of disease as an unreality simply means that it did not originate in divine Principle, the acknowledged source of all that is real and good.

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