Article November 12, 1927 Issue

The Open Door

ELLA B. CAMPBELL

Christian healing is effected by gaining a knowledge of the truth which Christ Jesus said would make men free. Anyone who gains this understanding will in the same proportion receive the power to do the works which Christ Jesus did: it is acquired in the degree that one walks in the footsteps of Christ Jesus, and so attains the Mind of Christ. Jesus tells us of the path to take; and his works demonstrated his teaching, as we can readily see by a study of the New Testament. It follows logically that walking in his footsteps by healing the sick cannot be divorced from preaching the gospel. Did not he say to his disciples, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature;" "Heal the sick"?

Mrs. Eddy, a later-day disciple of Truth, learned the secret of true living, experienced the fullness of spiritual wealth, realized the kingdom of harmony, heaven, through a spiritualized consciousness. And in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," on page 560, she says, "The grand necessity of existence is to gain the true idea of what constitutes the kingdom of heaven in man." Since the publication of this book thousands upon thousands of persons have gained so clear a concept of the present kingdom of heaven within, of the real consciousness of spiritual man, that they have been delivered from besetting sins, healed of so-called incurable diseases, and lifted out of various phases of impoverishment.

The Mind that was in Christ Jesus was to him the only lawgiver, and it annihilated what those around him believed to be law expressed in sin, sickness, and death. The essence of divine law is love. "Love is the fulfilling of the law," declared the Apostle Paul. Jesus distinctly declared that he came to fulfill the law. And he proceeded to annul every so-called material law of limitation by walking on the water, feeding the multitude, healing the sick, and raising the dead, showing clearly that the law he fulfilled was that of Spirit.

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