Editorial February 26, 1972 Issue

Immunity to Contagious Disease

Naomi Price

"I have come to the conclusion," said a new student of Christian Science, "that I never need be ill again." This man had been studying Science and Health assiduously. He was impressed by the logic of its reasoning from the basis of the allness of God, the divine Mind, and had caught the vision of this book's author, Mrs. Eddy. He had glimpsed why she writes, "When we wake to the truth of being, all disease, pain, weakness, weariness, sorrow, sin, death, will be unknown, and the mortal dream will forever cease."^{Science and Health, pp. 218, 219;}

Christian Science does offer mankind immunity to all mortal discord. It maintains that everyone can be free from the fear of contracting even those diseases that are said to be the most infectious and contagious. But it explains that for human beings there is a price tag to this immunity: constant effort to awaken to the truth of God's allness, and mental watchfulness to ensure that one stays awake to the implications of this vision. We must keep constant guard over human consciousness to make certain that we acknowledge as real only the perfection of God's universe, and we must reject every presumptuous mortal belief that disease is a legitimate condition of the body and has a material cause and a capacity to communicate itself through physical contact.

In reality there is no disease. God's spiritual universe reflects the perfection of His own all-inclusive, sublime being. His offspring enjoy perpetual health under the rule of His invariable law of good. Immortal man is always safe and sound. He neither suffers nor dies, but is at one with eternal Life, manifesting the order, activity, beauty, and vitality of his creator, divine Love. These are the true facts of man's real experience as the child of God, of eternal Life, and this is the way we should always know him. The wise writer of Ecclesiastes said, "This only have I found, that God hath made man upright." And he adds, "But they have sought out many inventions."^{Eccl. 7:29;}

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