Article November 20, 1909 Issue

In his letter contained in your issue of Thursday the...

Frederick Dixon—London.

Daily Express

[We publish with great pleasure the following terse and convincing article by Mr. Dixon, realizing that there is no other subject of such vital interest to humanity as the healing work of Christ Jesus, and its restoration in Christian Science practice.—Editor.]

In his letter contained in your issue of Thursday the critic asks me a question to which I am most happy to reply. He is anxious to know what meaning I attack to the word "works" in the passage from John, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." I attach to it the natural unstrained meaning of the English and Greek text.

The word translated "works" is erga, and if the critic will look up the word erga as used by John he will probably come to the conclusion that it would have been wiser if he had not asked the question. I cannot give him all the instances in which it is used, but I will give him one. When John heard in prison the "works of Christ," he sent his disciples to Jesus, and Jesus recounted his works to them in the following words: "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." I imagine, therefore, that it is quite clear that the works which Jesus did, and which he said could be performed by those who believed in him included something more than the healing of functional disease, under the egis of a doctor.

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