Article April 6, 1899 Issue

Is Christian Healing

As Taught and Practiced by Christian Scientists an "Unreasonable Fad."

H. C. Baird

Woodford County (Ill.) Democrat

Except in so far, as the four questions asked by "Democrat Doctor," regarding Christian Healing relate to the writer personally, it is no doubt plain to many who have read my former articles, that I have already answered them. It is true however, there are persons who by constantly neglecting to develop the spiritual, are unable to free themselves sufficiently from the claim of materialism to discern the spiritual. In 1 Cor. 2:14, Paul tells us "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

Without a study of spiritual things, it is as impossible for a person to comprehend the spiritual, as it is for him to understand a problem in higher mathematics, without study. Job said, "Acquaint now thyself with Him and be at peace; thereby good shall come unto thee." Jesus tells us that, "God is Spirit." In Science and Health, we are told "Mind is all that feels, acts, or impedes action." My answer then to, "What is sickness or disease?" in brief, is, that sickness is the result of discordant thought. Consider this answer for a moment in the light of Scripture. Without thought there is no sin or disease. When sin, through the triumph of Truth shall be overcome, then God's will, will be done in earth, as in heaven. Few, if any, believe that sickness exists in heaven (harmony.) The seeming realities which we call sickness, disease and death, are not of God's creation. The Bible declares that God alone is Creator, and that all He created is good. Paul tells us that "By man came death." John says, "Sin is the transgression of the law," and also states plainly that "The flesh profiteth nothing," that is, the flesh, or what we term body is mindless— not accountable: therefore sickness is an abnormal condition of thought.

In reply to his question, "To what are the cures effected by Christian Science healers due?" I reply to the power of Divine Mind—the Mind that was in Jesus. Through this Mind, Jesus healed all manner of sickness. The Mind that healed through the early Christians will heal to-day. That it does heal is clearly proven by the hundreds of thousands of cases that have been healed by Christian Scientists during the past thirty years.

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