Article August 17, 1981 Issue

Health from God alone

RONALD GRAY WALKER

When still a child, I was told that drinking cold milk for supper would cause indigestion and insomnia. Although this warning was eventually forgotten, I developed the habit of warming the milk I drank before bed. This persisted for many years. Then one day my study of Christian Science awakened me to see that this habit was a mental fixation, a false, unwitting fear carried over from childhood. I saw that the fear was quite groundless, with no substance or law to cause harm. Thereafter I could sleep perfectly well on cold milk!

Which latent beliefs of material cause and effect are we cherishing unknowingly? Perhaps we believe that matter in some form— food, climate, environment, for instance—can act as a law detrimental to our health and well-being. But God's laws are totally good and beneficial to man. "God is the lawmaker," writes Mrs. Eddy, "but He is not the author of barbarous codes."^{Science and Health, p. 381.}

How important to root out belief in all material health laws. If we honor such beliefs, even unwittingly, they tend to remain fixed, indefinitely prolonging human suffering. But through regeneration we can deny these fixations as false, eliminate them from consciousness, and find permanent release from their effects.

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