Article May 15, 1920 Issue

Instantaneous Healing

CLARA S. HARSH

We read in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy (p. 14): "Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual,—neither in nor of matter,—and the body will then utter no complaints. If suffering from a belief in sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well." It is the desire of every earnest student of Christian Science to heal instantaneously. Mankind is crying out its need of deliverance from all that flesh is heir to, and is looking more and more to the truth as gleaned from the study of Christian Science. It often matters little to the average man just how the healing is accomplished. He might admit that he supposes it is done through the operation of some good; but he always demands that it be done quickly and permanently. So of course the student who is ready to know God well enough to help his fellow man, inevitably faces the important question, "Can I be healed immediately?" with the ready answer, "Consciousness is good." With the single momentary actual consciousness of that fact, the inquiring one must realize that he is already healed. Why should it take hours to be conscious? Is not man made in God's likeness, conscious eternally of his God? There is nothing that man can be conscious of save good.

It is necessary for us to be instant in the denial of error, and constant in the affirmation of the truth. The perfect, harmonious operation of Truth never can lapse for a single instant. When we talk with one who seems to desire to relate what error seems to say, our work is to turn immediately to Truth, not waiting for the one to cease talking before taking our stand, but instantly obeying Mrs. Eddy's admonition (Science and Health, p. 419), "Meet every adverse circumstance as its master." We learn from the Scriptures that the pure in heart see God, and in Science and Health (p. 241) we read: "One's aim, a point beyond faith, should be to find the footsteps of Truth, the way to health and holiness. We should strive to reach the Horeb height where God is revealed; and the corner-stone of all spiritual building is purity." The thoughts of the student must be undefiled. Where the clouds of selfishness, envy, jealousy, hatred, have dispersed, there is seen the perfect God and perfect man clearly, instantly.

The writer well remembers how in working for the children in the home, she has often been tempted to say, at the seeming approach of error, "That is nothing," perhaps giving the child a look for a moment and then seemingly pushing the thought away; but she has learned that merely that sort of denial did little good. Mortal mind would like nothing better than that the truth be forced upon it no more strongly than that; for then it might still seem to have as much power as before. But the treatment at such a call is not to ignore error or to allow error by the above method to recede into the dark recesses of mortal thought, again to pop up when we thought it destroyed, but rather both to deny error and to affirm God's allness, with such faith and understanding in His infinite power and ever presence that the error must of necessity be instantly destroyed because of the all-pervading presence of the actual consciousness which is Truth.

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