Article February 27, 1971 Issue

Only Good Is Communicable

GRACE ARCHER DUNBAR

All that is real proceeds from God, good, and moves in accord with His loving will. He is the origin of all substance, knowledge, and action. All genuine being is controlled by God, infinite, divine Mind. As one reasons from this premise taught by Christian Science, one must conclude that God is the only communicator to His idea, man, and therefore only good is communicable.

We constantly hear that evil is communicable. The news media, advertising medical theories, spread the belief that a material body manifesting symptoms of disease can contaminate another material body and cause it to manifest the same distressing symptoms. Christian Science refutes this false belief by demonstrating the truth that life and action are spiritual, not material, and that man can experience only what God expresses. Man's real being can no more be contaminated by false, material concepts than light can be contaminated by darkness.

If matter moves, thought moves it. It has no intelligence or volition of its own. When one understands this, he can clearly see that an individual suffers not from a disease transferred to him by another individual but from the belief that there is a thing called communicable disease to attack him, make him sick, and even destroy his life. His protection, then, lies in understanding that there is no entity called disease, communicable or isolated.

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