Article June 17, 1905 Issue

Christ was the first Scientist to preach and practice healing...

Town Topics

Christ was the first Scientist to preach and practice healing without medicines, and the first healer to give absent treatment. His reiterated injunction to the disciples was to heal bodies as well as save souls. "He gave them power ... to heal all manner of sickness and disease," and he explicitly instructed them to "Heal the sick, ... raise the dead, cast out devils." His first act, after announcing his mission in the Sermon on the Mount, was to cleanse a leper by a touch of the hand. Then he gave the first example of absent treatment. A captain in the Roman legion said, "My servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented." Christ replied, "I will come and heal him." The Roman courteously protested, saying: I am not worthy to receive you in my house, nor is your visit necessary. I say to my soldiers, Go! and they obey me. "Speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed." Christ was surprised at this apt faith, and answered, "As thou hast believed, so be it done." "His servant," added Matthew, "was healed in the selfsame hour." They who do not credit such so-called miracles do not believe the Christian religion. Mrs. Eddy has invented no new thing; she has simply summoned Christians to return to the original teachings and practices of Christ.—Town Topics.

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