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THE MINISTRY OF HEALING
What are the qualifications required for healing the sick? This is a perennial question, one that every student of Christian Science has asked at some time or other, and it will not be difficult to answer if considered from the only true view-point. In nothing was Mrs. Eddy more emphatic than in teaching that here personal sense must be lost sight of. Study the whole chapter, for instance, on Christian Science Practice in Science and Health. It is, to use the author's own words, "aflame with divine Love" (p. 367), which heals. Among the first things that she herself learned was that her own prayers failed to heal her, and it was not, as she relates, until the spiritual sense was discerned that she found relief. This is the A. B. C. of Christian Science healing—this apprehension of the all-important fact that it is not human might nor human power that can accomplish the task, but the "living, palpitating presence of Christ, Truth" (Ibid., p. 351). This is part of the great lesson which needs to be learned. Every beneficiary of Christian Science wants to engage in this ministry of healing. It is divine work. It appeals to us because of its intrinsic worth, because it is the reflection of Love which enriches the giver and receiver alike. And it is the high privilege of all to engage in it.
If we see difficulties in the way, they are self-created; therefore they can be overcome by a greater fidelity to Truth. We know, as we have grown in the knowledge of the faith that we hold, that all truth must have its source in the one infinite intelligence, and that it is this truth alone which heals. When we are unable to apprehend this, we may be letting material concepts, the beliefs in the physical, obstruct the entrance of spiritual light. We may be raising self-constructed barriers, thus hindering our progress toward that condition of emancipation from erroneous thought without which we cannot be channels for divine Love to do its work. We are to know ourselves as spiritual; to know that the basis of all healing is spiritual; that Mind is All.

May 6, 1911 issue
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THE MINISTRY OF HEALING
ROBERT NALL
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INDIVIDUAL APPROPRIATION
VIOLET KER SEYMER
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THE DIVINE PRESENCE
HENRY LEIGHTON UPTON
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"REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY"
BESSIE BYRNE
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NO GOOD THING WITHHELD
ABBIE CRANDALL BACHMANN
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THE TRUTH UNVEILED
J. LOUISE CARTER
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BY LOVE ALONE
WARWICK JAMES PRICE
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Christian Science teaches us to strive to lift our vision...
William J. Bonnin
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A clergyman in your city took occasion recently to deliver...
John L. Rendall
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Christian Scientists prove their views about Christ and...
R. Stanhope Easterday
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An unprejudiced study of Christian Science would convince...
Edward W. Dickey
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Mrs. Eddy believed in God, and she believed that what...
Henry Deutsch
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Christian Science does not depend upon the human mind...
H. Coulson Fairchild
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Mrs. Eddy, although taking issue with popular belief...
George Shaw Cook
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The crimes of the tongue are words of unkindness, of...
William George Jordon
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THE KINGDOM WITHIN
Archibald McLellan
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THE DERELICT
John B. Willis
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PLENITUDE VS. POVERTY
Annie M. Knott
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from F. B. Schwentker, W. S. Fitzpatrick, John C. Harmony, Henry Benner
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ADMISSION TO MEMBERSHIP IN THE MOTHER CHURCH
John V. Dittemore
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For the last eleven years our family of four has relied...
Marguerite Seeker
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I am inexpressibly thankful to God for Christian Science,...
Sarah Alvira Wickham
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A feeling of deep gratitude impels me to tell of the...
Alwine Flügge
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It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I give the following...
Lewis C. Terrell with contributions from James A. Orr
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I have long wished to express my gratitude for the many...
Mary E. Truitt
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Many years before I would even test the benefits of...
Christina Fleming
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With sincere thankfulness to God for all the blessings...
Ada Hiscox with contributions from Margaret Robinson
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UNITY
LAURA GERAHTY
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from R. J. Campbell, Canon Plumptre, E. Umbach