Article October 10, 1983 Issue

The scientific remedy for sickness

SHARON SLATON HOWELL

The quickest, safest, and most potent remedy for any inharmonious physical condition is the Mind-science that Christ Jesus employed. Our realization that God, good, is All-in-all, and that whatever is unlike Him is therefore unreal and nonexistent, has healing power.

Christian Science makes this knowledge available to any sincere seeker. Its teachings explain and make practical the divine method of deliverance referred to in Jesus' words "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."^{John 8:32.} The study of divine Science turns the sufferer from the mistaken belief that God is far-off and unavailing, and lifts his thought to see that Christ, the manifestation of God, is ever at hand to set him free. The sufferer then has no need of drugs.

In her search for truth, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, perceived that God is the source of all reality and being, and that whatever is contrary to His nature must be considered untrue and unreal, however tangible it may appear. She writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "It is well to be calm in sickness; to be hopeful is still better; but to understand that sickness is not real and that Truth can destroy its seeming reality, is best of all, for this understanding is the universal and perfect remedy."^{Science and Health, pp. 393–394.}