Article October 16, 1943 Issue

Robbing Disease of Reality

STELLA PALMER APP

A little girl was told by her playmates that there were ghosts in the attic of her home. Believing them, and beginning to picture the shapes and sizes of the apparitions, she became ill because of her fears. When questioned by her mother, she told her about the ghosts. The mother comforted the little one, saying: "There is no such thing as a ghost. Put your hand in mine and we shall go to the attic and you will see that there are no ghosts there." Trustingly the child explored the place with her mother, finding only the friendly things with which she was familiar.

After the child had grown to young womanhood she became a student of Christian Science. On many occasions, when sickness has assailed her or members of her family, she has remembered that just as the ghosts in the attic were pure illusion, so according to the teachings of Christian Science there is no reality in disease.

On page 2 of her work "No and Yes," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "It is scientific to rob disease of all reality; and to accomplish this, you cannot begin by admitting its reality." To proceed correctly, then, in the treatment of disease according to the Science of Mind-healing, we must begin to reason from the basis that disease is illusion. In studying the Concordance to the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," we find that Mrs. Eddy frequently uses the term "illusion" when referring to disease and discord.

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