Editorial June 11, 1927 Issue

Healing with Truth

Ella W. Hoag

On page 92 of our Church Manual, under the caption "Healing Better than Teaching," Mrs. Eddy tells us that "healing the sick and the sinner with Truth demonstrates what we affirm of Christian Science, and nothing can substitute this demonstration." Then she goes on to recommend that "each member of this Church shall strive to demonstrate by his or her practice, that Christian Science heals the sick quickly and wholly." Obedience to the requirements of this By-law will alone insure the continued success of the movement of Christian Science, since through healing alone can the world be convinced that Christian Science is the truth. As our Leader says, "Nothing can substitute this demonstration."

Of course there is no Christian Scientist who does not agree with this. And yet, how many of us are satisfied with our present fulfillment of the demands this By-law makes upon us? We might easily multiply the reasons why we believe our demonstrations of healing are so meager; we could count by the dozen the limitations and delinquencies of which we appear to be quilty. Still there is the law for us—"Healing the sick and the sinner with Truth demonstrates what we affirm of Christian Science"!

But wait a moment! Has not Mrs. Eddy shown us right here the way out of our lacks, out of our inabilities, out of our failures? "Healing ... with Truth"! The blessed truth of perfect God and His perfect man as revealed in Christian Science! Then why should we stand appalled at our own shortcomings and waste valuable time in moaning over the falsities of belief in a corporeal selfhood, which never has healed anything and never can? Isaiah commanded centuries ago, "Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?" Over and over again does Christian Science iterate and reiterate that it is Truth which heals; that it is Truth we are to learn to know; that it is Truth to which we are to cling insistently; that it is Truth we are to prove is the only healing power.

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