Article February 22, 1913 Issue

The whole of the vast volume of healing work that is...

William J. Bonnin

Manchester (Eng.) and South District Advertiser

The whole of the vast volume of healing work that is being achieved in Christian Science is being accomplished through the understanding of God as the only Life, and consequently of true health as one of His manifestations. All disease is in some degree the manifestation of a limitation of life,—the human sense of life, that is to say,—and all healing is a freeing from such limitation. And so Christian Science approaches the question of healing with the demand that the profoundly important point is, not to be acquainted with the nature and claims of disease, but to know more about life and about its one and only source. To seek to cure by the use of human will-power, or through the agency of the human mind, is to employ the very medium through which disease comes, for more and more is it coming to be recognized that all disease is mental in origin, and such a looking for both sweet and bitter water from the same fountain cannot hope to be successful. In the light of Christian Science, all methods depending on any manipulation of the human mind are seen to be forms of mental suggestion, and mental suggestion is the polar opposite of Christian Science.

There can be no doubt that most successful healing ever performed was that by the Founder of Christianity, and there cannot be any very serious question that he intended his followers to prove by their healing work their understanding of his teaching. Christian Science teaches that this duty is still imperative. It teaches that it was Christ Jesus' understanding of the truth about God and man which enabled him to heal; that this understanding is the reflection of the one and only Mind, God; and it also teaches that as we let that Mind be in us "which was also in Christ Jesus," we shall be empowered to carry out those works of salvation from evil which are characteristic of a practical Christianity.

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