Editorial December 17, 1904 Issue

The Basis of True Healing

When Jesus was asked whether he was the Christ, "he that should come," he answered, "Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: the blind receive their sight, and 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." It is only by these same "mighty works" that the church of to-day can prove its divine origin. Ritual and ceremony are not sufficient, the sick must be healed and the sinful reformed, otherwise what proof is there that the religion of Christ Jesus is preached?

That these phenomena of Christianity are valued as proof of discipleship is shown by the attention paid to occasional cases of healing accomplished by the ministry of some devout churchman, reported from time to time through the press. It is somewhat saddening, however, in such instances, to see that there is no recognition of the divine Principle which was the basis of Jesus' works, but instead, the healing is almost invariably attributed to some specially conferred power or endowment of the individual, and the result is looked upon as an abrogation of divine law, rather than its fulfilment.

An example of this failure to recognize that God, the divine Principle of healing, acts through unchanging law is before us in the following excerpt from a despatch from London which appeared in a recent issue of the Boston Herald. It contains an interview with an Anglican clergyman who speaks as follows of his own work:—

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