Editorial February 28, 1948 Issue

"THINE HEALTH SHALL SPRING FORTH SPEEDILY"

L. Ivimy Gwalter

Instinctive in the human heart is an innate feeling that health is an inherent quality of life, the legitimate and normal state of man's being, as witness mankind's effort to gain and retain health, together with the endless research carried on in this endeavor and the noble and self-sacrificing lives of those who would truly be humanity's helpers. Yet how often lack of health seems to preponderate in human experience, and how fleeting is the human concept of health!

The Scriptures are replete with utterances concerning health. The prophet Isaiah voices the unequivocal deific promise, "Thine health shall spring forth speedily." Two outstandingly beautiful passages also are found in Jeremiah 30:17 and 33:6.

The reason humanity in general has not attained health is that, in seeking it through physical theories and materialistic methods, mankind is looking for it in the wrong direction. The fundamental error at the root of all belief in ill-health is the acceptance of the theory that man is material rather than spiritual, that he originates in matter rather than in Spirit, and that he is dependent upon matter rather than Mind for his sustenance and well-being. Even when physical theories acknowledge man to be both material and spiritual, they still insist that he possesses a physical organism which dictates his status of health or misery. All such theories are false.

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