Article October 31, 1914 Issue

The healing of Christian Science has absolutely nothing in...

John W. Doorly

Ossett (Yorkshine, England) Observer

The healing of Christian Science has absolutely nothing in common with either magic or what is commonly termed faith-healing, which is often blind human belief. Christian Science healing is accomplished through understanding the invariable actual law of God, and is based wholly on a scientific and spiritual premise. Jesus described this process as knowing the truth, and no other way of salvation but this knowing of the truth can ever save mankind permanently from either its sins or its sicknesses.

The gospel of Christian Science teaches clearly that sin and sickness are both effects of the carnal mind, and can be dealt with properly only through an understanding of the divine Mind, or that Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus." Thus Christian Science shows that mere human belief in any agency can never free mankind from its sins and sicknesses, since this very belief is of the same origin as sin and sickness; but when we turn from the mortal mind with its many beliefs, we find surcease from its woes in the understanding of the divine Mind, or true being.

Today it is true that medical systems which have failed to heal humanity of its sicknesses, and a theology which has failed to heal mankind of their sins, are both seeking aid in the supposed activities of the human mind termed suggestion and faith-healing. But neither of these has any connection whatever with the law of the divine Mind as taught in Christian Science, revealing God and His Christ to men, and which alone can heal and redeem them. Any one who will take the trouble to study the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, will see clearly the difference between Christian Science healing power, which operates through the understanding that God is the only Mind, and this wrongly termed "spiritual healing" which is the result of blind faith.

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