Editorial May 30, 1931 Issue

Healing in Christian Science

Duncan Sinclair

The healing which Christian Scientists are practicing to-day is the spiritual healing practiced by Christ Jesus well-nigh two thousand years ago. In this they are acting in accordance with the wishes of the Founder of Christianity, who, it will be remembered, sent out first his twelve disciples, as Luke records in the ninth chapter of his Gospel, with "power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases," and later, as is stated in the following chapter, "seventy also, ... into every city and place, whither he himself would come," in order to "heal the sick that are therein" and to tell them that "the kingdom of God is come nigh" unto them. Further, Mark records the following words as one of the last utterances of Jesus to his disciples: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. ... And these signs shall follow them that believe; ... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover."

The Gospels plainly set forth the fact that the Master healed all manner of disease and sin, and that he expected, yes commanded, his followers to do the same. Under the marginal heading "Healing primary," on page 31 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes, "First in the list of Christian duties, he taught his followers the healing power of Truth and Love." The aim of the Nazarene was to reveal God and His Christ to mankind, to demonstrate the healing and saving power of spiritual understanding, and to establish Christianity as the system whereby his teaching and demonstration should be made known to all men for the purpose of their salvation.

To heal others as Jesus did, God must first be understood. To impart this understanding is essentially the province of Christian Science. It reveals Him as infinite Truth, infinite Life, infinite Love, infinite good, and emphasizes the fact of His perfection. It also reveals God's creation as the perfect expression of Himself, as governed entirely by spiritual law, and as in no degree subject to so-called evil, including what mortals call sin, suffering, and disease. Briefly, Christian Science teaches that God and His creation, including spiritual man, exist, and will continue to exist eternally, since God is perfect; and that matter and evil, with all their apparent derivatives, are unreal. These truths are basic in Christian Science healing.

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