Article December 31, 1927 Issue

The Master's Example

HERBERT BUCHER

To emulate the works of the master Christian, Jesus of Nazareth, is the constant endeavor of every loyal Christian Scientist. The healing of the sick by spiritual means alone had for centuries remained a mystery, and men had accepted the miracles accomplished by Christ Jesus as possible only in that age and by a few. But what said the Master? Even this: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." The works of healing were accomplished for about three centuries after Jesus passed from human sight; and then materiality crept in, with the result that the promises the Master gave were forgotten and the healing power that he and his disciples demonstrated was temporarily lost.

The spark of true spirituality could not be quenched, however, and it glowed steadily, though dimly, through the intervening centuries. It remained to be fanned into a bright, steady flame by one who, through a life of religious devotion and an overwhelming desire to help mankind, was found pure enough to receive a further revelation of Truth.

Mary Baker Eddy was the one who brought again to the world the truth that makes free, and established through her writings the absolute Science of Christian healing as taught and demonstrated by Christ Jesus. In her major work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy gives positive rules which, when understood and obeyed, result in the healing of the sick and sinful now, as in Jesus' time. Through strict adherence to these rules it is seen that the so-called miracles or wonders performed by Jesus in healing all manner of discord and disease, were not supernatural but "divinely natural" (ibid., p. 591), and were the outcome of the application of the law of the one, ever present God, divine Principle. This same divine law is in operation to-day, as of old, but in order to use it in proving the divinely natural and perfect condition of man, the true relationship of God and man must be understood.

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