Editorial June 28, 1969 Issue

The Way of Escape

Alan A. Aylwin

Are you being tempted to believe that some form of disease is developing in your body? If so, no matter how ominous the symptoms, there is a way of escape, a sure and certain path to healing. This way is the spiritual method employed so effectively by Christ Jesus, his disciples, and the workers in the primitive church. But because of creeping materialism the understanding of this method was lost sight of, and it remained dormant until the advent of Christian Science in 1866.

Down through the centuries disease has seemed to be a frightening reality, a solid fact, because its effects can be seen and felt in and on the human body. Christian Science agrees that disease does seem real, but it shows this evidence to be based on a fundamental error that from time immemorial has misled humanity and left it undefended from the depredations of disease. Speaking of this basic error and how she was alerted to reject it, Mrs. Eddy writes, "The first spontaneous motion of Truth and Love, acting through Christian Science on my roused consciousness, banished at once and forever the fundamental error of faith in things material; for this trust is the unseen sin, the unknown foe,—the heart's untamed desire which breaketh the divine commandments."^{Retrospection and Introspection, p. 31;}

The implications inherent in this advanced position may seem preposterous to the inquirer, educated as he is to accept material sense testimony without question. But Mrs. Eddy's teaching is based on the Bible, which reiterates the primacy of spiritual power over material conditions. As in Biblical times, this power is present here and now to save and heal, not through a blind faith in an unknown God, but through a scientific understanding of the divine nature and omnipotence, and the consequent powerlessness of material conditions, disease included.

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