Article December 11, 1909 Issue

Those who endeavor to obey our Master's command to...

M. S. Bruen

Dublin (Ire.) Express

Those who endeavor to obey our Master's command to "heal the sick" will understand his works. Of course, every scholar knows that the word translated "miracle" in the Gospels, in its original sense meant simply "marvel" and not an arbitrary setting aside of divine law, as it has since been taken to mean. It has been said that "the age of miracles is past," but the age of marvels is not past, while we can point to flying-machines and wireless telegraphy. We know they are in harmony with law, and in the same way the earnest Bible student knows that the divine power and mercy which healed the sick in the earliest Christian years—it was not confined to the three years of our Master's ministry—is still present and available and heals now, not in a miraculous way, but in a divinely natural way, as it did then.

Christian Science does not heal sickness through the suggestion that one faulty human mind has power over another equally unreliable mind, to make it believe something which is not a fact. Healing comes by the letting go of erroneous human concepts of God and man and the universe, and by having a more scientific knowledge of them, as Jesus had. No one who really studies the New Testament can believe that to Jesus the things he saw around him had the same value or consistency as they had for the multitude. He walked on the water, stilled the storm, fed the famishing, and said: "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." Peter walked on the water, too, while he thought of it as Jesus did, but then fear came in and he forgot. The New Testament is full of instances of what has been accomplished by those who let that Mind be in them which was also in Christ Jesus.

We are told that "by their fruits ye shall know them," and the result of studying Christian Science and thereby gaining a clearer and more spiritual outlook is shown in the works that have been accomplished—the sick have been healed, the sorrowing have been comforted, the dissolute and depraved have been reclaimed, for our Master said: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."

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