Editorial April 6, 1929 Issue

The Healing Truth

Duncan Sinclair

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 145) Mrs. Eddy writes, "If there is any mystery in Christian healing, it is the mystery which godliness always presents to the ungodly,—the mystery always arising from ignorance of the laws of eternal and unerring Mind." In 1866 Mrs. Eddy discovered Christian Science with "the laws of eternal and unerring Mind," and after proving repeatedly that the application of these laws heals disease and sin, she was convinced of the scientific nature of Christian healing. No longer was spiritual healing a mystery to her; and she was persuaded that others might learn its Science and become as confident as she of its efficacy.

Christian Science leads the student to the center of true being, revealing God Himself. It shows that God and His manifestation constitute the sum total of reality; that God is perfect Mind; and that His manifestation is His creation of perfect spiritual ideas. It teaches, further, the fallacy of believing in the reality of aught but God and His creation. To put it somewhat differently, Christian Science teaches that since God and His spiritual ideas alone are real, what mortals call matter is unreal; and that therefore all that seems to be material in origin is unreal also.

Now mankind believes itself to be living in a material universe. It believes itself to be under the domination of matter and material law, and that under this domination it is constantly being victimized, suffering in consequence from disease, sorrow, pain, lack, and sin. If the situation be analyzed, belief in a power other than Spirit—materiality—will be found to underlie every pang that rends the human heart. Mortals are continually revolting against materiality, the mortal falsity which in belief so often causes them bitterly to suffer. And how often they have revolted in vain because of their ignorance of the profound spiritual truths which have just been referred to!

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