Editorial April 25, 1925 Issue

The Power of Spirituality

Duncan Sinclair

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy briefly but succinctly lays bare the secret of the power which animated Christ Jesus and enabled him to do the deeds of healing recorded of him in the New Testament. On page 51 she writes: "Jesus was unselfish. His spirituality separated him from sensuousness, and caused the selfish materialist to hate him; but it was this spirituality which enabled Jesus to heal the sick, cast out evil, and raise the dead." Thus, it was unquestionably Jesus' spirituality which on every occasion made him the victor over the flesh and the many ills which afflict it.

And how was this spirituality attained which gave the Nazarene his marvelous power over the so-called laws of matter? By the sacrifice of material beliefs,—materiality. He knew that God, the Father, is Spirit; and he viewed all existence in the light of that supreme truth. Hence, spiritual being was to him the only reality, and matter an unreal concept of the so-called human mind. Jesus therefore could deny—and did deny—the material sense of self, with all its accompanying woes; and, accordingly, he was able to heal these selfsame seeming woes. And what is of deepest import, the spirituality which characterized him was manifest in an unselfishness so wonderful, so sublime, that he could say, "He that findeth his [material sense of] life shall lose it: and he that loseth his [material sense of] life for my sake shall find it."

Christ Jesus was the Way-shower—our Way-shower. In what degree, then, are we following him in healing the sick, destroying sin, and raising the dead? That is a question which causes the Christian Scientist much heart-searching; for well he knows that although the Master commanded his followers to pursue its demands, little has as yet been done along the last of these lines. The sick he may have healed, the sinner he may have saved; but what about the raising of the dead? It is true that many times in Christian Science practice the approach of the dread enemy has been stopped, and health restored through spiritual understanding; but why can it not be said of the raising of the dead as of the healing of sickness and sin, that it is being regularly done in Christian Science practice to-day? We need be in no difficulty in finding the answer. Failure to carry out any of the commands of the Master, failure to do any of the works he himself did and asked his followers to do, is due to lack of spirituality, and to lack of spirituality alone.

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