Article March 11, 1985 Issue

Freedom from disease

JOHN MAYNARD HILL

Why do Christian Scientists regard disease as unreal?

A correspondent for the New York Herald interviewed Mary Baker Eddy at her home in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1901 and asked this question: " 'Do you reject utterly the bacteria theory of the propagation of disease?' " Her reply was: " 'Oh,' with a prolonged inflection, 'entirely. If I harbored that idea about a disease, I should think myself in danger of catching it.'" The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 344.

On what basis did the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science so firmly base her conclusions? Did she not know of the medical world's findings regarding germs and diseases and their reputed correlation as cause and effect? Had she not kept abreast of the discoveries going on during the nineteenth century in the fields of science that followed the work of Louis Pasteur and others? A study of her writings will show that she had made some discoveries of her own that throw a different light on the entire nature of human existence and that raise revolutionary questions for mankind to consider.

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