Article July 24, 1909 Issue

Your reviewer may say, as has been said, "It was...

Frederick Dixon

Two Worlds

Your reviewer may say, as has been said, "It was Christ's character rather than his miracles that made him beloved, and the solace of suffering humanity throughout the ages," but the miracles were the expression of this character, and exactly in proportion as man today walks in his footsteps, he does let that Mind be in him "which was also in Christ Jesus," and in doing this is able, to that extent, to "heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils." It is simply impossible to read the Gospels without being impressed by the extent to which the ministry of Jesus was a ministry of physical healing. It is true that this healing was not then, any more than it is today in Christian Science, the ultimate aim of Jesus' ministry, but it was the means be took, and the means he commanded his followers to take, to draw sinful and suffering humanity nearer to God. If, he said, those about him could believe for nothing else, they must believe for the sake of the works.

It was as this healing disappeared in the gross materiality of the ages succeeding the first century of the Christian era that the divorce came about between the healing of sickness and the healing of sin. So it was when the light first dawned on the consciousness of a woman, fitted by a life of purity and selflessness to receive it. On pages 108 and 109 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy has told the world how this came about. How her own passage in safety through the valley of the shadow of death first revealed the truth to her; how she withdrew from society and, with the Bible as her only text-book, sought patiently for three years the secret of the gospel of Jesus; she has told us there of the joy of the search, of how she finally won her way "to absolute conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration."

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