Article September 30, 1905 Issue

"The redemption of our body"

C. W. CHADWICK.

Even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.—PAUL.

WHEN we stop to consider the thousand and one different remedies for the alleviation of bodily suffering, all promising relief and all signally failing in the hour of greatest need, we are forced to admit that the world at large is yet ignorant of an adequate means for relief. With all our boasted learning in physiology, anatomy, and kindred subjects, the human body is to-day just as much in need of "redemption" as ever before, and it will remain "the glory, jest, and riddle of the world" until explained in the light of Christian Science, from the standpoint of one perfect creator and one perfect spiritual creation.

Popular theology also fails to explain the true nature of what is termed the human mechanism, in that it believes it to be a habitation for an immortal soul which is incompetent to protect its body from the ravages of disease and sin. Left in the embarrassing position caused by belief in an immortal creator and a mortal creation, of causation in bondage to and dependent upon materiality, is it any wonder that the poor body stands in need of a redeemer? While sweet and bitter waters are supposed to proceed from the same fountain, and light and darkness to dwell together, it is manifest that in coming to the world, Christian Science has supplied a pressing want.

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