Article July 5, 1913 Issue

"SAVING HEALTH"

CYTHNA WOODHOUSE.

It is often asked by those becoming interested in Christian Science, why so much emphasis is laid on the healing of sickness, and why so much time and thought are given to what seems to be the merely temporal and material needs of humanity. Every sufferer, at some time, has echoed the words of the psalmist, "As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God," and in his trouble has longed for the healing waters which would wash away his sins, as well as heal him of his sickness.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy the world is given a message of deliverance today in these words: "Healing the sick and reforming the sinner are one and the same thing in Christian Science" (p. 404). To the writer came deliverance, through Christian Science, from the suffering of years and from paralysis which had made her completely helpless, while at the same time there was begun a work of regeneration, a loosening of the fetters of belief in heredity, disease, and fear, and a bringing in of the promised deliverance from the greater burdens of ignorance and sin. The physical healing of Christian Science points to a fuller salvation than we have hither to known, and it is a sign which a little child may understand, telling of a God who is Love, and of a Father who "pitieth his children."

In the book of Revelation we read of a tree whose leaves "were for the healing of the nations," a tree watered by "a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb." Mrs. Eddy tells us that river "typifies the course of Truth" (Science and Health, p. 593), and in this healing course the misconceptions of material self and sense are being washed away through an understanding of God as ever-present Spirit, and through a realization of God as Love and Life, which at once begins to deliver the sufferer from sin, as well as from the bondage of fear and sickness.

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