Article July 31, 1902 Issue

A Sin to be Sick

W. D. McCrackan

The Dansville (N. Y.) Advertiser

To the Editor.

Dear Sir:— I was much impressed with the brief report of a lecture by Dr. J. H. Jackson, in your issue of late date, headed "Sin to be sick." There was much truth in such phrases as "Health means harmony," "Do not give to emotion," "Cultivate the simplicities of life," etc.; and while Dr. Jackson evidently seems to have approached his subject from the physical standpoint mainly, you will pardon me if I call attention to the helpfulness of these phrases in human conduct, and point out how they corroborate the teachings of Christian Science which leads men into all truth. On the subject of "sin" and "sickness," the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, says (p.404, Rev. Ed.) :—

"Healing the sick and reforming the sinner are one and the same thing in Christian Science. Both cures require the same method, and are inseparable in Truth. Lust, hatred, and dishonesty make a man sick; and neither material medicine nor Mind can help him permanently, even in body, unless they make him better morally, and so deliver him from his destroyers. Mortal mind and body are one. The heat of hatred, inflaming brutal propensities, the indulgence of evil motives and aims, will make any man (who is above the very lowest type of manhood) a hopeless sufferer. They consume the body with the fires of hell."

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