Editorial October 3, 1977 Issue

The Science of Preventing Disease

Geoffrey J. Barratt

"American medicine is in the midst of a major shift in focus—away from disease treatment and toward disease prevention."^{U.S. News & World Report, April 4, 1977, p. 62;}

Many decades ago Mary Baker Eddy stated in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and consistently proved: "The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the preventive and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood. Unscientific methods are finding their dead level. Limited to matter by their own law, what have they of the advantages of Mind and immortality?"^{Science and Health, p. 369;}

Christian Science, the Science of health, is presenting to humanity an entirely new basis for forestalling disease and wiping it out. To spiritual-mindedness the method is not difficult to understand and demonstrate. The premises on which Christian Science rests are the same as those that underlay Christ Jesus' teaching and healing practice. Central to them is the spiritual nature of God and His spiritual universe, including man.

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