Article November 27, 1926 Issue

Christian Healing

WARWICK A TYLER

Humanity's urgent need is health. Christian Science meets this need. The aim and purpose of the Christian Science movement is Christian healing; its actitivies are dedicated to revealing and demonstrating the healing influence of the Christ, the divine idea, in human experience. Our wise Leader says: "In different ages the divine idea assumes different forms, according to humanity's needs. In this age it assumes, more intelligently than ever before, the form of Christian healing" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 370). To make this Christian healing available to all mankind, Mrs. Eddy wrote and published the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and her other works on the subject of Christian Science, and established The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist.

"He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions," says a psalm; and Isaiah writes, "My word . . . shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." The express purpose for which God has sent His Word is the redemption, salvation, and healing of mankind collectively and individually. This Word of God is the truth to which Jesus bore witness through his spiritual understanding of Being. Jesus' whole earthly ministry evidenced the efficacy of this healing Word. Wherever he went, the sick were healed and the hungry fed; sinners were reformed; dismal and heavy hearts and lives were made joyful, peaceful, and contented. The application of his understanding of God's Word saved mankind. And it was upon the demonstrable understanding of the truth that he built his church. In Science and Health (p. 136) Mrs. Eddy writes, "Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing." His faithful follower, our beloved Leader, also established her church upon this same spiritual foundation; and its mission is maintained upon this same Christ-healing. And humanity's cry to-day is for healing, redeeming, practical Christianity, to save it from want, woe, sin, sickness, and death. Does the Christian Science movement do this? It does. Multitudes are being freed from the most hopeless forms of sin and disease as a direct result of its healing ministrations.

Mrs. Eddy wrote the Christian Science textbook to bring Christian healing to mankind. She had discovered that God is divine Principle, and that Principle is demonstrable. This discovery healed her; and so great was her love for humanity that she immediately sought to share the knowledge of this healing Principle with them. Science and Health elucidates Mrs. Eddy's discovery, providing simple rules for applying Christian Science to the cure of sin and disease. All may avail themselves of the truths taught in this textbook, a perusal of which has healed inveterate disease. And an earnest study of it will enable its students to heal "all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people."

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