Editorial August 29, 1931 Issue

"Christian Science as old as God"

Duncan Sinclair

Christ Jesus healed the sick and the sinning through spiritual understanding, and the early Christian church did the same for upwards of three hundred years; but after that, spiritual healing practically ceased. And from the days of primitive Christianity until Christian Science — the great discovery of Mrs. Eddy— reëstablished it, healing through spiritual means alone occurred but rarely.

But although spiritual healing was not scientifically practiced as a rule, both before and after Jesus' time — indeed, throughout all time — the law of God was in existence to bring about the destruction of all unlike good. Under the caption "Christian Science as old as God," Mrs. Eddy writes on page 146 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "This healing power of Truth must have been far anterior to the period in which Jesus lived. It is as ancient as 'the Ancient of days.' It lives through all Life, and extends throughout all space." It could not be otherwise, since God, the infinite and perfect Mind, is unchangeable.

Some have thought that the Master alone was endowed by God with divine power to do the works of healing which characterized his ministry. But did he not say, as John records in the fourteenth chapter of his Gospel, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do"? And we also know from the New Testament that the disciples carried out the Master's wish, healing disease, and in more than one instance raising the dead. Unquestionably, those faithful disciples possessed in rich measure the spirit of their great Teacher, and a degree of his spiritual understanding as well, for not otherwise could they have succeeded in the healing work to the extent that they did.

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