Article September 13, 1919 Issue

On page 419 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"...

The Christian Science Monitor

On page 419 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy, in the simplest of language, utters a warning which it were well the whole world pondered. "A moral question may hinder the recovery of the sick. Lurking error, lust, envy, revenge, malice, or hate," she writes, "will perpetuate or even create the belief in disease." The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science in these words draws attention to the fact that evil beliefs, of whatever name, not only perpetuate but cause disease. And in doing so Mrs. Eddy has helped to open the eyes of mankind in no uncertain manner to the essentially mental nature of sickness.

Now since what has just been stated is true, it follows that with the total destruction of evil there will be perfect freedom from disease. And has not this been proved, at least to some extent, by every human being? No one exists who has not seen the havoc which vice produces on humanity. And if the subject be examined more closely it will be found that every sick belief springs from the same source,—namely, the belief that matter is real substance, possessing sensation and controlling life. This belief is held by the majority today. Although Christ Jesus demonstrated the unreality of matter time and again in all the healings of sickness recorded of him, in his walking on the water, in his stilling of the tempest on the Sea of Galilee, and in his feeding the multitude when the disciples had only a few loaves and fishes at their disposal, still it is quite certain that the metaphysical meaning of his works has not been generally understood.

Christian Science shows that Christ Jesus was perfectly certain as to the unreality of matter because of his intimate knowledge of the allness of God. No one had ever before realized as Jesus did that God was All-in-all, that God was the divine Principle, the only creator, the only cause; and that God was Spirit or Mind. Christ Jesus knew all these things. If he had not known them he could not have done the wonderful things recorded of him, from the restoring of the withered hand to the raising of the dead. In each and all of the miracles, as they are called, there is evidenced the same profound understanding of divine Principle, the same clear-sighted appreciation of the utter unreality of matter. It was all one to the Nazarene whether it was a case of sin or sickness he was called upon to heal. He applied the same Principle in every case. He understood the allness of Principle and consequently the utter unreality of matter or evil; and it was this spiritual understanding which brought about the healing.

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