A recent cover story in a weekly newsmagazine focused on "the results of the broadest and most expensive research project in medical history." For the millions of readers who saw the headline, though, it would not have appeared as welcome news. The article claimed that a substance, normally found in many foods and considered essential to human life, has been "proved" harmful at high concentrations."Hold the Eggs and Butter," Time, March 26, 1984, p. 56.
One after another, such warnings are paraded before us—on television and radio, in newspapers and magazines, in everyday conversation. With so much attention, the threats can almost gain a kind of popular appeal. But are we helpless in the face of what is being voiced about the apparently pervasive dangers in our world?
The good news is that we're not helpless. There is a greater truth we can turn to—a truth that, when understood, has the effect of protecting us, of liberating us from the fears and anxieties of contemporary life. In fact it is the great truth: the truth of God and man. This is the truth that Christ Jesus relied on to heal "all manner of disease" and to redeem the sinner. And this same truth that undergirded primitive Christianity is what Christian Science is bringing to the world today. The universal healing and redemptive purpose Jesus demanded of true religion is the very purpose of Christian Science in this age.
