Article February 19, 1921 Issue

Healing

THOMAS ALLEN

On page 351 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says, "It was the living, palpitating presence of Christ, Truth, which healed the sick." It is the same to-day as it was in the time of Jesus and the prophets before him. The manifestation of this healing is not confined to bodily ailments through the destruction of false beliefs; its ramifications are much broader. Wherever there is a false concept manifested, Truth is there to heal; for Truth is the only reality, and it is when we recognize the spiritual fact instead of the material counterfeit that we participate in the healing brought about by Christ, Truth, which our Leader speaks about.

Man, the image and likeness of God, the only man there is, needs no healing; it is the false concept of man that must disappear before we can realize in its fullness the true identity and individuality of man as the reflection of Principle, God. It was left for Mrs. Eddy, through her revelation of Truth, to show to the world the infinite way of healing. Knowing the allness of Mind and humanity's need of salvation, she gave forth the fact that it was the living Christ, instead of the physical Jesus, that healed the sick and raised the dead. The presence off this living Christ as rediscovered by the Founder of Christian Science is made manifest in her works, which contain the treatment necessary to heal any false belief. They are much more than philosophical treatises; they are facts demonstrated. Take our daily newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor. It is leavening the whole newspaper world for Truth by cutting out the sordid and giving to all mankind a better understanding of what a daily paper ought to be. It is part of the undivided garment of Truth—one of the leaves of the tree which is healing individuals and society, ridding the world of a material view of life and replacing it with the spiritual.

The healing power of the Monitor is incalculable. It reaches the waste places of belief, cleanses the Augean stables of discord in the press by giving a more metaphysical viewpoint of what is happening in art, literature, sport, politics, and socieal organizations. I know of the healing power of this daily paper through its advertising columns. A sense of lack of labor and supply has been healed, domestic help has been sought and found—through the desire to advertise in the Monitor—before the advertisement has appeared, which proves the ever presence of Truth, and that the same law is operating of which Isaiah spoke in prophecy, "And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear," followed by the fuller knowledge and certainty of spiritual healing which Jesus expressed when he said, before the raising of Lazarus from the dead, "Take ye away the stone,"—meaning, Lift up your conception of what constitutes life and man,—and in the prayer of gratitude: "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always." His absolute knowledge of the ever availability of infinite Mind to heal the sick and raise the dead was the basis of his demonstrations. The Monitor is certainly filling a unique place among newspapers. The demonstration of our Leader is welding together the best happenings in the world and giving to mankind a view of events from a metaphysical standpoint, uncovering the error and healing the sore places by pouring on the balm of Gilead—Truth. In the words off one of our beautiful hymns (Hymnal, No. 3) the Monitor gives to us a conception of the "Life that maketh all things new."