Editorial September 26, 1903 Issue

A Healing Gospel

We frequently hear the statement, "I do not see why Christian Scientists talk so much about the healing of disease, and lay such great stress upon it." The answer should not be far from the thought of any student or even casual reader of the New Testament.

When Jesus "had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them cut, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease," and when John's disciples asked, "Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?" our Master's answer was, "Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them." The healing of the sick was so essentially a part of Jesus' ministry as to forever identify the correct understanding of God which he preached with the healing and saving power demonstrated through his works.

The healing of one case of sickness is no less certain evidence of the Christian Scientist's understanding of Jesus' teachings than is the solution of a problem in algebra the one satisfactory proof of the student's understanding of its rule.

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