Article January 22, 1903 Issue

The Scientific Attitude toward Disease

MRS. IDA W. STRAUB.

IF we should suddenly find that a garment—filthy and in tatters—had been thrown over our shoulders, would we not hasten to throw it off? and if it should cling would we not make vigorous efforts to rid ourselves of it, not being content until we were entirely free?

Our first thought on noting the tattered garment would be this: "It does not belong 'o us, it is not a part of our apparel, we do not want it, and there is no reason why we should be compelled to wear it; we loathe its filthiness, we are ashamed of the tatters; and the assurance that we have the power to throw it off, nerves us to make sufficient effort to accomplish the result.

In this same attitude we should meet disease, the moment we discover its presence or approach, instead of weakly accepting its conditions, and arguing for it. Let the assurance that it does not belong to God's child, help us to make our first effort to be free. We know God, Good, never made it, and it is no part of Mind's plan.

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