Article January 16, 1932 Issue

Healing and Teaching

GEORGE SHAW COOK

Mrs. Eddy says, in Section 7 of Article XXX of the Manual of The Mother Church, "Healing the sick and the sinner with Truth demonstrates what we affirm of Christian Science, and nothing can substitute this demonstration." This, Christian Scientists, or metaphysicians, know to be a fact. For without the Christ-healing of sickness and sin, the Christian Science movement would be stripped of its practical value to mankind.

The best answer to adverse criticisms of Christian Science is found in the constant and ever increasing volume of testimony which is poured out at the Wednesday evening meetings in Christian Science churches and through the Christian Science periodicals. The answer that Jesus gave his critics was: "If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works." No one could regularly attend the Wednesday evening meetings in The Mother Church and listen to the grateful expressions of Christian Scientists from all parts of the world without being convinced of the healing efficacy of Christian Science. Week by week grateful persons come from every quarter of the globe, eager to testify that through Christian Science, as discovered and taught by our beloved Leader, they have been healed of "all manner of sickness and all manner of disease;" that they have been lifted out of lack, redeemed from sin, comforted in sorrow, and turned back from the gates of death.

Yet, knowing that the Christ-power to heal had been demonstrated in her own experience and in the experience of those who turned to her for help between the time of her discovery of Christian Science and the writing of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy says, on page 373 of that book "Healing is easier than teaching, if the teaching is faithfully done." And those Christian Scientists who have been privileged to follow their Leader into the field of teaching Christian Science would agree readily with that statement.

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