Article August 3, 1968 Issue

Ward Off Contagion

LEILA BAILEY McLANE

Many people are spiritually demonstrating their dominion over contagion and other false beliefs of material law that would claim to rob them of their God-given freedom and harmony. We need not be helpless victims of contagion. Man as God's child has absolute immunity from evil. God's laws are spiritual and good, producing harmony. They blot out whatever is harmful or afflictive.

Christ Jesus did not allow material law to restrict him in any direction but proved God's law to be supreme. The account in the eighth chapter of Matthew of the healing of the leper states: "A leper [came] and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed."^{Matt. 8:2, 3;}

Jesus approached disease fearlessly. He showed his complete mastery over the false laws of infection often connected with leprosy by touching the man as he healed him. The touch in itself had no power to heal, but evidently indicated Jesus' absolute disbelief in disease and his rejection of it. The healing power was the Christ, Truth, which Jesus exemplified. He healed by utilizing the power of Principle, God, realizing the presence of but one law—spiritual law.

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