Editorial February 23, 1929 Issue

Healing in Christian Science

Duncan Sinclair

Whoever has studied Christian Science, gained an understanding of its teachings, and in some degree demonstrated these teachings in the healing of disease and sin, is not in doubt as to the entirely metaphysical nature of Christian Science healing. While it is true that the majority before they became Christian Scientists believed in the efficacy of drugs, they no longer use these as curative agents, being convinced from practical experience that nothing can possibly take the place in healing of the spiritual method used by Christ Jesus and the early Christian church.

The method of healing used in Christian Science is altogether spiritual. It is a thought-process, an enlightened thought-process; and it can be practiced successfully only by those who have an understanding of divine Science, and whose thought has been in a measure purified and spiritualized. Human will-power, so called, enters not at all into the practice; indeed, will-power is a hindrance in Christian Science practice. Knowledge of the physical sciences, so called, is not a factor in the practice either: it too may be a deterrent. What is necessary is that thought should be spiritualized; that one should be conscious of the omnipresence and omnipotence of God and of the unreality of matter or evil, and aware that thought thus informed and inspired can destroy inharmony in whatever form it may seem to present itself. Mrs. Eddy writes (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 4), "Thought imbued with purity, Truth, and Love, instructed in the Science of metaphysical healing, is the most potent and desirable remedical agent on the earth."

It may not seem easy for some people to give up their belief in the efficacy of drugs, especially if they have reasoned themselves into the belief by means of what they have considered to be reliable data. It may take more than a few demonstrations of healing through Christian Science to cure them of their misplaced faith in drugs; but nothing is more certain than that this faith will decrease as reliance on spiritual understanding is proved to be justified, until faith in the power of spiritualized thought to heal has entirely subjugated belief in matter as curative. Few people, surely, believe that drugs will heal sin. The time is coming when people in general will have as little faith in the use of drugs to heal disease as to heal sin, and will have recourse to an understanding of God, Mind, for release from their woes, whether physical or moral. Mrs. Eddy writes on page 149 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Mind as far outweighs drugs in the cure of disease as in the cure of sin. The more excellent way is divine Science in every case."

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