Article August 5, 1916 Issue

Scientific Healing

ROBERT NALL

How do we define health? What mental concept presents itself as we think of health? What are the criteria by which we judge of its nature and quality? To be free from physical trouble, to be blessedly exempt from medical attention, from the need of any of the remedies catalogued in the pharmacopoeia,—this, the average man claims, entitles him to be classed as healthy. That is where the Christian Scientist was before the scales fell from his eyes and he awoke from his material dream. He now has a wider vision; his perception and his realization of health have broadened into the manifestation of the activity of good, into the operation of divine Principle.

It is a tribute to the divine authenticity of Christian Science that while in its demonstration it is ready to give us all we need, it deprives us of nothing that is of any worth. The mental faculties, when clarified by the metaphysical process, present many things in a new light; these are cognized from a different viewpoint. Life itself takes on a richer hue, and the present, in contrast with the past and the future, assumes its rightful paramount place in the daily and hourly recognition of Truth's rule over error.

If we have arrived at this point in our understanding of Science, it is quite certain that we are establishing what Mrs. Eddy calls "the scientific sense of health" (Science and Health, p. 373), and we are privileged to interpret this in the most comprehensive way. "Wilt thou be made whole?" is a question that Truth submits to every one at some time or other. It is the voluntary offer of divine Love to the physical sufferer, to those in despair, to every victim of mortal passion, to all who are unconsciously adding to their torments by the fear of a score of things that never happen.

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