Editorial October 12, 1929 Issue

Healing, a Christian Duty

Duncan Sinclair

How simply does Matthew bear record in the eighth chapter of his Gospel of the healing works of the Master! He writes, "When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick." Christ Jesus' power to heal, then, was not limited to certain types of disease, either mental or physical: he "healed all that were sick." And what is of equal significance, he instructed his disciples to go forth and do likewise, in proof of the veracity of what he had taught them.

Those wonderful healings of Jesus, how lightly we may have regarded them, passing them by as if they were of little importance, when they were actually brought about through the Master's spiritual understanding, the understanding of God and His creation, and without resort to matter in any form! Mrs. Eddy writes on page 168 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "He [Jesus] did the will of the Father. He healed sickness in defiance of what is called material law, but in accordance with God's law, the law of Mind." By doing so and making his method known to his followers, the Nazarene set the example, showed the way, to the Christians of all ages.

According to Gibbon in his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," there is historical data for saying that for upwards of three centuries after Jesus' time healing was practiced in the early Christian church. But the practice gradually declined, until it apparently ceased; and during the centuries between then and the nineteenth, spiritual healing occurred only occasionally, and this obviously because of lack of understanding of the law of God. The rediscovery of this healing spiritual law was made by Mary Baker Eddy, who has set it forth clearly in her great textbook mentioned above, and in her other writings, and who named it Christian Science.

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