Article April 16, 1910 Issue

Our critic rightly argues that Jesus did not come to earth...

R. Stanhope Easterday

Elkhart (Ind.) Review

Our critic rightly argues that Jesus did not come to earth to relieve physical sickness, but this does not militate one iota against the significant preponderance of the healing work in his brief earth-ministry. The fact seems to have been overlooked, also, that Jesus classified sin and sickness in the same category, often healing sore physical distress by forgiving sin, and in the end declaring all phases of evil, including sin, disease, death, and all manner of discord, the work of the devil, after designating the evil one "a liar, and the father of it." Disease, therefore, being the more tangible or obvious manifestation of evil, it was natural and necessary that healing of physical ills, resultant from the more or less hidden operation of spiritual truth in the elimination of sin from human consciousness, should have been more noticeable and seemingly paramount.

The origin, moreover, of all phases of evil being a lie, it should be obvious to all that the truth of being alone can effectually antidote the same, whether manifest as sin or disease. This, then, is the full and effectual significance of our Lord's work for humanity, and this in brief is a resume of Christian Science teaching. Because Mrs. Eddy deduced Christian Science from the Scriptures, her text-book on the subject is but a recapitulation of the teachings of Jesus, or a commentary on the Bible, and the sole end and aim of Christian Science is to reestablish in this age primitive apostolic religion and healing, with what success, moreover, the healing and regeneration of countless hundreds attest, and those who do not understand or demonstrate Christian Science cannot appreciate or effectually refute these evidences of unadulterated Christianity.

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