Editorial July 21, 1973 Issue

Helping Forestall Natural Disasters

Geoffrey J. Barratt

Is there an answer to the recurrent problem of what are called natural disasters? Yes. According to the Science of Life nothing is, in fact, more unnatural than they are. These large-scale destructive occurrences of fire, flood, earthquake, plague, drought, famine, have an answer in the absolute understanding that these have no place in God's all-spiritual creation. Through Christian Science we can gain the spiritual scientific comprehension of God and His manifestation that helps forestall "natural" catastrophes.

We may ask, Aren't all material things, including the beautiful and useful ones, open to destruction by natural forces? Doesn't this mean that there is little we can do to offset disasters?

In finding solutions it's of first importance to gain a more metaphysical grasp of the world we see about us. In clarifying the issue, Mary Baker Eddy explains: "Even the human conception of beauty, grandeur, and utility is something that defies a sneer. It is more than imagination. It is next to divine beauty and the grandeur of Spirit. It lives with our earth-life, and is the subjective state of high thoughts."^{Miscellaneous Writings, p. 86;}

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