Article August 11, 1917 Issue

In the article entitled "The Doctor" Christian Science is...

M. J. Badenach—Perth, Western Australia

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In the article entitled "The Doctor" Christian Science is included among various mental methods of treating disease which rely wholly upon the influence of the human mind. In order to correct any misapprehension which would result from such classification, I would make the unqualified statement that the human mind is not a factor in Christian Science healing. The divine Mind, God, is the only healer in Christian Science.

Christian Science is unique. It rests wholly upon Spirit, God, and resting upon Spirit, it is spiritual in its nature, Christly in its method, merciful in its design. Christian Science, through the omnipresence and omnipotence of Life, Truth, and Love, is perpetually proving itself adequate to bring health to the sick, pardon to the sinner, comfort to the sorrowing; and who is there today who has no need of the Comforter? To utilize the Principle of Christian Science is to bring into operation the law of divine Mind, the law of whose perfection and continuous activity David wrote. It was this law of God, good, upon which Jesus relied with such absolute confidence when he healed the blind man, straightened the crooked woman, raised Jairus' daughter; the law which he knew would remain inviolate all down the centuries, when he gave the commands to heal the sick and preach the gospel.

It was this law that Mrs. Eddy discovered in 1866 while reading Matthew's account of Jesus healing the man sick of the palsy, and she was instantaneously healed of the effects of "an injury caused by an accident, and pronounced fatal by the physicians" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 24). Do we wonder that love and gratitude should have so flooded her thought that she spent three years in searching the Scriptures in order that she might find the rule for demonstrating the Principle of divine healing? Do we wonder that, having found the rule and proved it practical in every phase of human experience, mental, moral, physical, she labored indefatigably to establish simple and effective methods for disseminating her good news—the gospel of right thinking? The magnitude of her work amazes even those who have grown up in close touch with it.

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