Editorial April 21, 1928 Issue

Love, the Healing Principle

Duncan Sinclair

How often have men contemplated the healings reported in the New Testament, and wondered how the Master and the disciples brought them about! The healings they have not doubted; but how were they performed? Material remedies were not used; physical manipulation was not resorted to; what agency, what power, then, was brought to bear upon the maladies to destroy them? Many have given up the problem as impossible of solution; others have believed that the healings of Christ Jesus and the early Christian Church were the result of a special bestowal of divine power upon the Master and his earlier followers. It remained for Christian Science to solve the century-long problem of spiritual healing, as everyone who studies the subject without bias may assure himself.

In 1866 Mary Baker Eddy experienced an instantaneous healing of a bodily condition which her physician had pronounced incurable. This healing gave her the clue, so to speak, to the Science which she felt certain lay behind her experience; and for several years she followed it up, devoting her time to the study of the Bible in order to discover in its sacred pages the Principle and rules of spiritual healing. This Principle and its rules she did discover; and the Science she named Christian Science. And whosoever desires will find Christian Science elucidated, fully and explicitly, in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

What, then, is the method of Mind-healing carried out by Christian Science? Mrs. Eddy answers the question on page 460 of Science and Health in the words: "Our system of Mind-healing rests on the apprehension of the nature and essence of all being,—on the divine Mind and Love's essential qualities." In that simple sentence the whole ground of spiritual healing is surveyed. And what does it show? That spiritual healing depends upon the understanding of God as divine Mind, or Love, and of the qualities which constitute His nature. It would be easy to amplify this explanation of Christian Science Mind-healing; but Mrs. Eddy covers practically the entire ground in the quotation just given.

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