Article January 2, 1909 Issue

All Christians will concede that Christ Jesus understood...

Frank W. Gale

The Pacific Unitarian

All Christians will concede that Christ Jesus understood and demonstrated the law of God in his mighty works among men, and he said of each disciple who believed (or understood), "The works that I do shall he do also." Jesus used no drugs, hypnotism, nor suggestion in his healing work, but relied entirely upon the truth and power of God, and those who would follow his example should do the same. He made no distinction between functional and organic diseases, but healed "every sickness and every disease among the people," and instructed his disciples to do likewise. Through Christian Science this injunction is being fulfilled, in the healing of both functional and organic diseases of every kind.

When Jesus called his disciples and sent them on their mission, "he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick;" and they fulfilled their mission. This shows that the work of the Christian ministry is both teaching and healing through spiritual means, and there is no warrant in the teachings of Christ Jesus for the separation of this work,—the minister to preach only and the healing to be left to the doctor who uses material means; or the minister to treat functional diseases by suggestion and leave all other cases for the doctor. The spiritual understanding of God and His law is sufficient to solve all the problems of life and to heal every phase of disease without recourse to material methods. While Christian Scientists recognize and commend the humanitarian motives of physicians in their efforts to alleviate human suffering, they also recognize that the spiritual method taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus is the most effectual and the one to be followed by those who understand it.

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