Article January 23, 1926 Issue

Healing Work

DELLA M. WHITNEY

The healing work in Christian Science bears witness to the truth of its teaching; and the prosperity and growth of the Cause of Christian Science are in a great measure based upon this healing work. Each has his individual part in this righteous activity; and all are privileged, daily and hourly, to demonstrate the power of Truth through the honest, consistent effort to destroy in their thinking all that is opposed to God, good. Mrs. Eddy says in the Manual of The Mother Church (p. 49), "A Scientist shall not endeavor to monopolize the healing work in any church or locality, to the exclusion of others, but all who understand the teachings of Christian Science are privileged to enter into this holy work, and 'by their fruits ye shall know them.'"

The Christian Scientist must watch that he recognize evil as a false belief rather than as personal. Many times, in cases of both sickness and sin, if one will examine his thought closely, he will find that there is a tendency to think of the error as belonging to a person, rather than as false belief, entirely separate from man. So long as error is thus identified with a person, so called, it appears to have reality; and it will seem difficult to destroy. One must also vigilantly watch that he be not tempted to personalize good. Our great Master firmly rebuked the rich young man when the latter addressed him as "Good Master," saying, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." The impersonal sense of good enables one to lose sight of so-called material selfhood, thus turning one from the contemplation of who shall be greatest and from willful human desires.

Christ Jesus said, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." Since God does all, a great sense of freedom may be won, and many times an error will be completely met and mastered, when one is able to get self out of the way and realize that his part in the healing work is to stand steadfast in the realization of the truth of the perfection of God and His creation, including man. The sincere Christian Scientist realizes that since it is God who does all, he is able to emulate the works that Jesus did only in the exact measure that he exemplifies divine qualities.

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