Article February 4, 1905 Issue

Christian Scientists do not consider that the healing of the...

C. F. Hackett

Utica (N. Y.) Press

Christian Scientists do not consider that the healing of the sick through divine aid is any more of a miracle than is the healing or reforming of the sinner through the same means. Jesus did not say nor imply that the healing of the withered hand was a miracle and that the casting out of the seven evils from the Magdalen was unnatural. Both were the natural result of his divine knowledge. He said, "I knew that thou hearest me always." And he also said, "For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?" When we consider that a very large percentage of the diseases of the world are the direct result of sin, or sensual excesses, the Christian Church has in its reformatory mission accomplished a vast amount of physical healing; so that to deny Christian healing would be to deny its own works. Christian Scientists do not claim it as a special gift, but that all who will may avail themselves of it. The Bible makes healing a part of the Christian ministry. It is a matter of history that the early Christians healed the sick and even raised the dead during the first centuries of the Christian era.

C. F. Hackett.
Utica (N. Y.) Press.

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