Editorial December 18, 1926 Issue

Healing through the Understanding of the Perfection of God and Man

Duncan Sinclair

It is readily admitted by Christians generally that Christ Jesus was the chief of spiritual healers. Christian Scientists have not the slightest doubt that he was. To them he will ever be the wonder-working Jesus, the great Exemplar whose method they must follow if they would do in a measure what he did. The student, before he became interested in Christian Science, may often have pondered over the records of Jesus' life in the New Testament, hoping to discover for himself a clue to the healings referred to therein, and probably he may have noticed that such qualities as faith and obedience and humility, on the part of those healed, were factors in the healings; but the method employed by Jesus remained a mystery to him. And, indeed, it was a mystery to the whole world until Mrs. Eddy solved it in Christian Science.

What, then, has Christian Science done to make known the method of healing employed by the Prophet of Nazareth? It has revealed the nature of God so perfectly that one equipped with an understanding of it—the divine nature—may read the Gospels and find in them the secret of Jesus' method. And what is the nature of God which Christian Science reveals? Is it different from what the prophets of old knew? Christian Science acknowledges and accepts all that has ever been discovered about God, as it is set forth in the Old Testament; but it clarifies what has there been made known, emphasizes it, and adds to it its own quota.

The Hebrews were monotheists, worshipers of the one God. They referred to God as the Almighty, the I AM, the I AM THAT I AM, the Holy One, and by many other terms which conveyed the idea of His supremacy. Isaiah interprets Him as saying, "I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God;" and Jeremiah listening hears, "Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord." But probably many of the people to whom these words were primarily addressed may have but meagerly apprehended their meaning. How otherwise are their beliefs in evil and their evil practices, so pronounced at times, to be explained? Christ Jesus came into the heritage of the revealed truth of the race into which he was born and among whom he labored. He accepted that heritage, and being able to interpret it through the Christ-consciousness, which was so wonderfully his, he virtually gave to mankind a new revelation of God.

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