Article April 2, 1910 Issue

From Genesis to Revelation the Scriptures characterize...

Charles B. Jamieson

Portsmouth (N. H.) Herald

From Genesis to Revelation the Scriptures characterize God (divine Mind) as the healer of "all thy diseases." The healing of all manner of diseases by Christ Jesus through spiritual means only, is a demonstration of the truth of that teaching. Christian Science, therefore, has Scriptural authority and the practical proof by Jesus that God—Spirit, Truth, Life, Love, infinite good—is the one ever-present intelligence, power, and causation, possessing all truly healing qualities.

The doctor suggests that it matters not where the faith is placed, that all healing is a matter of mental action, the result of mere blind "faith" in some person, system, or thing. Unnumbered persons who have unbounded "faith" in drugs continue to linger in sickness and disease, and then die. Their "faith" does not heal them. Neither does "faith" in the minister or the doctor alone reform the sinner or heal the sick. Many persons, however, after having such experiences, have put themselves under Christian Science treatment and have been healed; thus proving that it is better to rely upon God than upon man, upon Spirit rather than upon matter. All thinking persons now recognize the mental influence on the body. A changed mental state produces a changed bodily condition, thus proving the teaching of Christian Science that the so-called physical body is but the subjective state of human consciousness. This also emphasizes the further teaching of Christian Science that drugs possess no inherent healing properties and that the healing effect is of mental causation.

Christian Science, however, is not a "faith-cure." Faith alone is not enough. To practise Christian Science there must be a demonstrable understanding of God, Spirit, and also of His spiritual laws. The healing accomplished by Christian Science, like that accomplished by Jesus, is not the result of blind "faith" in a personal God, but of an intelligent faith, based upon the understanding of God, Spirit, and the laws of Spirit and their intelligent application to human needs and conditions. One might have "faith" in mathematics and yet be unable to solve a single problem. The understanding of mathematics, however, gives one a practical faith in mathematics. So is it with the understanding of God, as taught in Christian Science.

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