Editorial February 19, 1949 Issue

RIGHT CONVICTIONS

Helen Wood Bauman

Christian Science is revolutionizing the cure of the sick, for it is proving that all disease is a mortally mental state rather than a condition of matter and that an opposite, or spiritual, state of consciousness heals it. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science and Founder of its Christianly scientific system of healing, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 377): "The cause of all so-called disease is mental, a mortal fear, a mistaken belief or conviction of the necessity and power of ill-health; also a fear that Mind is helpless to defend the life of man and incompetent to control it. Without this ignorant human belief, any circumstance is of itself powerless to produce suffering."

These words are fraught with comfort for the sufferer, for while flesh and its conditions may appear baffling, he can be confident that he is master of his own convictions concerning them. Furthermore, Christian Science provides him with new convictions—convictions based upon the revelation of God, Spirit, as All, and of man as His spiritual idea which He holds in a state of perpetual health and perfection.

These higher convictions, when held vividly in thought, transform and heal the so-called human self, for they advance one out of the mortal conviction that matter has actual existence, that man is a fleshly personality, and that Life and intelligence are material. They correct the belief that health is subject to physical laws over which God has no control, that man's nature is partly animal, and that life proceeds from flesh and is hedged within its limits.

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