Editorial April 25, 1931 Issue

The Perfect Remedy

Duncan Sinclair

How often have mortals wondered if ever a universal remedy will be found for the ills that afflict them! Here they are, they believe, dwelling in a material body, subject to material law, and the victims of all manner of evil. In their distress they echo the wail of Eliphaz the Temanite to Job, "Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward;" which would seem to be more or less true of every member of the Adamic race, since not one of them but is liable to be tempted by sin and disease. So strong, indeed, is the belief that suffering is inevitable that many are without hope of mankind's ever being free from it. To human sense the problem seems a formidable one.

The fact is, however, that the perfect, the universal, remedy for all the ills of mankind has already been found; and Christian Science reveals it. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes (pp. 142, 143): "Truth is God's remedy for error of every kind, and Truth destroys only what is untrue. Hence the fact that, to-day, as yesterday, Christ casts out evils and heals the sick." Truth, then, is the universal remedy. Should anyone doubt this, let him remember how a lie about anything is destroyed by the truth about it. The process of destroying error by the truth is in constant use in ordinary human affairs. Then why should it be limited in its application?

Consider the working of the rule in case of sickness. As Christian Science teaches, there is only one cause—God, infinite good. All that God causes must therefore be good. Hence only good exists as the effect of God, the one and only cause. But sickness is not good; consequently sickness is unreal. That is the truth about sickness. If anyone who is believing himself to be the victim of disease will scientifically perceive and realize the truth that disease is unreal, what should result? Healing. Disease is always mental, primarily a false state of consciousness. Substitute for this false mental condition a true state of consciousness, and the disease disappears. Therefore, as our Leader writes (ibid., pp. 393, 394) "It is well to be calm in sickness; to be hopeful is still better; but to understand that sickness is not real and that Truth can destroy its seeming reality, is best of all, for this understanding is the universal and perfect remedy."

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