Article November 7, 1931 Issue

In the February 1 issue of your paper a clergyman, in...

W. Truman Green, Committee on Publication for the State of Florida,—Lakeland

Ledger and Star-Telegram

In the February 1 issue of your paper a clergyman, in an article entitled "Jesus the Great Physician," affirms that any miracle of healing which Jesus performed was in harmony with some higher spiritual power or law. The clergyman's affirmation deserves the profound consideration of everyone, because Christ Jesus did both teach and prove by demonstration that there is a spiritual law applicable to physical healing. This spiritual law of healing was understood and practiced in a degree many centuries before the birth of Jesus. Such ancient prophets and worthies as Moses, Elijah, Elisha, and others, healed the sick through their understanding of it. Peter and Paul, who understood this law through the teachings of Jesus, also healed the sick and raised the dead. This shows that spiritual law has always been available for men to use for themselves and for others.

In the course of his article the clergyman asks these pertinent questions: "Is there in Christianity a legitimate and effective ministry of healing in the physical sense?" and, "Should healing be a normal function of the church to-day?" The healing ministry of Christian Science, and the command of Jesus, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also," furnish convincing proof that there is to-day a healing ministry, and that spiritual healing should be a normal function of the church.

In 1866 Mary Baker Eddy was healed through the reading of her Bible. Convinced that her healing was accomplished through the operation of a spiritual law that could be understood, she devoted three years to the earnest, consecrated study of the Bible in her endeavor to discover this law, and she won her way to this understanding "through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 109). In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy has given to the world her understanding of the spiritual law of God which is applicable to meet every human need. She gave to her discovery the name Christian Science because it is scientifically Christian, is Christlike in its ministry, and is understandable and indisputably demonstrable by little children as well as adults. The mission of the Christian Science church is "to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" (Church Manual, p. 17).

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