Article September 3, 1938 Issue

I shall be grateful if you will kindly allow me space in...

Richard Corridon, Committee on Publication for the Northern and Eastern Districts of India,—New Delhi

Hindustan Times

I shall be grateful if you will kindly allow me space in which to offer an explanation of the Christian Science attitude towards health and disease.

True health, Christian Science teaches, is a divine or spiritual quality and condition, the natural and normal possession of man, who is the reflection, or expression, of God. By "man" here is meant, not mortal man—the counterfeit—but the immortal man of God's creation, to whose coexistence with the Father the master Christian bore such eloquent testimony, and of whose identity he gave us clear indication when he declared, "Before Abraham was, I am."

Disease is understood in Christian Science to be the product of what we term "mortal mind," of which the Apostle Paul wrote, "The carnal mind is enmity against God." The student of Christian Science heals disease in himself and in others by the prayer of gratitude for man's unity with God. He finds authority for his reliance on this spiritual method of healing in the words and works of Christ Jesus, and is able to follow the example of the Master in the degree that his thinking and living reflect the true Christ-spirit. Disease, then, becomes to the Christian Scientist an imposition of the carnal mind, to be accorded neither reverence nor entertainment in consciousness. By thus taking a firm stand for the demonstrable omnipotence of God, the Christian Scientist does not "make altogether too much of physical health and disease."

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