Article June 14, 1982 Issue

Real nature and the course it runs

BETTY M. TONKIN

The comment "We just have to let nature take its course" is sometimes spoken optimistically, implying that a certain disease will run its course and then the patient will be well. Or the same remark can have the gloomy connotation that everything possible has been done but to no avail, and nature's course may end in death.

But what is this "nature" that has to take its course? Material belief says nature is an erratic physical force. Spiritual understanding shows that the only nature which has a course to take is the nature of Spirit, God, who creates neither disease nor death.

Mortal history depicts man as a mortal who from the moment of birth is faced with a relentless course through childhood and maturity to death. Here Christian Science comes to the rescue and presents the truth that man is spiritual, never born and never dying. He is forever the perfect likeness of his Maker, divine Spirit, and therefore never experiences mortal birth, maturity, or deterioration. He forever reflects the divine nature of Spirit, whose course is harmonious, continuous, intact, never lacking anything, and without beginning or end.

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