Editorial October 26, 1963 Issue

Disease Is Not Incurable

Helen Wood Bauman

When Christ Jesus said, "With God all things are possible" (Mark 10:27), he was stating something he had proved, for his words had wide latitude. He had cured diseases considered incurable and had even raised the dead. Those whom he taught to heal through divine power emulated him, and they also healed the sick and raised the dead—all this without resort to material methods. It is a great pity that this line of healing was not carried out to its full possibilities through the earlier centuries of Christian history. Instead, material remedies were employed, and the divine power which made all things possible was practically forgotten as a healing agency.

Not the flesh, but the mind of the flesh, the so-called carnal mind, has made the conditions it considers incurable. And it is to thought that attention must be turned in the healing of such conditions. The carnal, or mortal, mind, to use the terminology of Christian Science, is only a law unto itself, and its beliefs constitute its laws. But belief can always be corrected by spiritual knowledge; and when mortal beliefs are destroyed, their claim to produce a case of sickness believed incurable is also destroyed. Then human consciousness conforms more nearly than before to the divine laws of health.

Mary Baker Eddy discovered the truth which Jesus said would make us free, and she proved her discovery by healing hopeless cases of sickness and by teaching others to heal in the same way. She startled the world by her declarations that disease is not real, and she was able to refute those who disputed her discovery by healing sicknesses called incurable by physicians. And this has been done unnumbered times by her followers.

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