Article July 17, 1909 Issue

THE RIGHT TO BE WELL

CLARENCE W. CHADWICK.

The materialist might argue, If "flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God," men need not expect to enjoy the blessings of good health in this present world. To confirm this thought he might call attention to the fact that no known material system devised for the prevention and cure of disease has proven itself infalliable; that diseaases have continued to multiply, and in many instances to become more alarming, with the world's advance in material knowledge.

Christian Science rebukes this line of reasoning and begins to differentiate between what the world calls real and what is real in the sight of God. In harmonious accord with Bible teaching it designates "flesh and blood" as the temporal or unreal, as that which is to be "put off" or overcome. It does not teach that pain and evil are spiritually real or God-given, and then try to find a remedy to do away with them. It does teach that they are the mistakes of false sense, and that in obedience to divine law they must be corrected or destroyed. In no other way could it magnify the name of the Lord.

Magnifying evil by calling it real or ineradicable does not give all honor and glory to God. The constant aim of every true Christian must be to minimize evil and not to magnify it in thought, word, or deed. Since "the flesh profiteth nothing," he knows that "flesh and blood" cannot be of God, and he begins at once to lay claim to his spiritual dominion over that which is unreal and unprofitable. He no longer dignifies "flesh and blood" by calling it man. His concept of man has risen above the sensual or unreal to the spiritual and real, wherein he finds man to be the spiritual image and likeness of God. He knows that this man has a perfectly indefeasible right to be well, and that health will be made manifest just to the extent that the old man is put off and the new man put one.

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