Article May 18, 1940 Issue

Unavoidable Health

HENRY EDISON WILLIAMS

"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?" How persistently out of the valleys of human experience does this cry of the Psalmist arise from hearts heavy with grief, poverty, discouragement, disease; and how reassuringly persists the refrain, "Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God"!

The Psalmist must have scanned far vistas of spiritual realities before giving utterance to such profound words. It is as though, gazing upward from the depths of human despair, he had caught a glimpse of the uninterrupted harmony of God's eternal plan, and in joyful acknowledgment of God's love and protection, had sung of the hope that was in him.

If the Psalmist thus could voice gratitude in recognition of God as the source of his well-being, with how much greater assurance may those who have the fuller revelation of Christian Science, as discovered and founded by Mary Baker Eddy, look Godward, knowing that since "sickness is a temporal dream," they have but to realize, in the words of Mrs. Eddy (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 412), "the presence of health and the fact of harmonious being, until the body corresponds with the normal conditions of health and harmony."

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