Editorial July 11, 1925 Issue

Overcoming Sickness

Duncan Sinclair

The healing of disease occupies a great deal of the time and thought of men and women to-day. Everywhere there are to be found institutions equipped for the study of the ills of humanity; and many men and women are devoting their lives to the endeavor to lessen human suffering by the healing of disease. The great majority of the experimentalists engaged in this work view disease almost altogether from a material standpoint. The material body is assumed to be real, and material laws, taken for granted as real also, are supposed to govern all bodily functions. Numerous conditions seem to arise to disturb the correct functioning of this complicated organism, the so-called human body; so that when a disease develops, the cause, from the material point of view, may be believed to be either a simple one, or beyond the ingenuity of the expert to diagnose. But be that as it may, in many cases little guaranty can be given that healing will be certain, because of the difficulty in rectifying a system which it is admitted is so little under the control of the person possessing it. Such, briefly, is how the question stands from the purely material point of view.

Now, sickness is viewed in an entirely different manner by Christian Science. To begin with, real creation is understood to be altogether spiritual, not material. God is known to be infinite Spirit; and the conclusion is drawn that since spiritual being alone is real, matter is unreal, an erroneous concept of the so-called human mind. Hence Christian Science maintains that the so-called human body, including its every part, is an unreal concept, a false belief held in common by mankind.

To understand the method of spiritual healing as practiced in Christian Science, it is necessary to recognize the falsity of the so-called material body, and, moreover, to understand what reality is and what the truth is about the real man. As stated above, God is infinite Spirit or Mind. The manifestation of infinite Mind is the universe of ideas,—the real spiritual creation, which includes individual man. Since God, divine Mind, is perfect, the real, individual, spiritual man is perfect also; and he can never change from perfection to imperfection, because the divine Principle of his being remains perfect. Man, therefore, never can become sick, never can become diseased, never can be made to suffer.

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