Article August 27, 1910 Issue

Those who have experienced metaphysical or Christian healing...

Ida Hodnett

Montgomery (Ala.) Times

Those who have experienced metaphysical or Christian healing can merely say, when disputes arise on the nature of their former troubles, "One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see;" that is, Whereas I was suffering from this or that distress, now I am free.

Do some persons actually deny that Jesus, the master Metaphysician, healed organic disease? His method was purely metaphysical. It had no connection with hypnotism, or the influence of the human mind, and no conjunction with physic. The only basis of Jesus' metaphysical healing that can possibly be admitted is a right knowledge of God and of man's relation to God. Christian Science is teaching its adherents to discern the purely spiritual process of Jesus, and to practise it in proportion to their right apprehension. They do not claim to have attained as yet the height and depth of Jesus' knowledge. They are more or less beginners, but if they follow on, mastership will be attained. The student, when perfected, shall be as his master. This applies to the science of mathematics and just as surely to the Science of Christianity. The apostle Paul clearly discerned that when we have demonstrated ourselves to be children of God, we are "heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ."

The "optimism" of Christian Science bases itself, not on discounting the worries of a carnal existence, but on an advancing, though at present faint, perception of the nature of Spirit and the spiritual creation, and on the acknowledgment, through a faith which is advancing to understanding, of the permanence and present power of the spiritual creation. With the apostle Paul, a Christian Scientist of this day may say: "I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

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