Article June 7, 1913 Issue

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EVA C. HAMMOND.

Though the body of Lazarus had lain four days in the tomb, and it might be supposed that, as Martha declared, it would be in a state of decomposition, in his restoration there was no painful and prolonged period of reconstruction, no convalescence according to a materia medica program. When in answer to Jesus' call (not to return to life, but to awaken from sleep) he stepped from the tomb, and there followed the command addressed to the outsiders, "Loose him, and let him go," the bindings and swathings of false beliefs fell from him, and he stood forth whole.

We should never bow down to the ignorant teachings of fear or superstition that there need be any painful symptoms manifested in the coming of health to us. Mrs. Eddy says, "To the Christian Science healer, sickness is a dream from which the patient needs to be awakened," and also, "Keep in mind the verity of being,—that man is the image and likeness of God, in whom all being is painless and permanent" (Science and Health, pp. 417, 414).

We must not become discouraged if, when the call of Truth comes to us and we rise from our long sleep in the material sense of life, we are not immediately loosed from all our fetters. We may be awake to the fact that in Christian Science we have found the "tree of life," but we may not seem able to free ourselves at once from all fear of disease, and other results of wrong teaching; for it is according to our understanding of divine Truth that we are enabled to do this. If we persist in our course, however, these bindings and swathings of false belief will one by one fall from us, and we shall be free, for divine Love is omnipotent.

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