Editorial January 28, 1933 Issue

Healing

Duncan Sinclair

By its demonstrations of spiritual healing during the last half century, Christian Science has been awakening mankind to the futility of reliance upon matter as a healing agent. Because of faith in matter, drugs were used to an almost incredible extent when Christian Science was discovered by Mrs. Eddy in 1866. If at that time one had wished to find a place where they were not in general use, he might have had to go to some uncivilized country where belief in the power of incantations, or other similar superstitions, held sway. And this extensive use of material remedies, so called, was resorted to by many with the utmost conscientiousness, and with the support of a large body of apparently highly trained thought.

Christian Science has arrested, and in many instances destroyed, faith in the power of drugs to heal—multitudes who have become Christian Scientists have entirely given up their use—and has gone far to restore the spiritual method of healing, successfully practiced by Christ Jesus. All forms of disease were alike to him, in that he healed them all by the same spiritual method. Mrs. Eddy writes on pages 147 and 148 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Jesus never spoke of disease as dangerous or as difficult to heal. ... He prescribed no drugs, urged no obedience to material laws, but acted in direct disobedience to them." Obviously, the Master regarded disease and the method of its cure in a way very different from the people among whom he moved.

Now, as stated above, the method of healing used in Christian Science is that practiced by Christ Jesus. What is its nature, and what its basis? First, it is entirely spiritual; secondly, its basis is spiritual understanding. Christian Science reveals the truth about God and man, showing God to be perfect Mind and man to be Mind's perfect reflection. Adhering to this truth, it denies reality to whatever savors of imperfection; or, in other words, it denies reality to all forms of inharmony, including disease. When, then, a case of sickness presents itself to the Christian Scientist, he endeavors not to allow himself to be deluded. He should know that no such thing as disease exists in real spiritual being, as did Jesus over nineteen centuries ago. And in proportion to the clearness of his realization of the truth of being and the strength of his denial of the reality of disease, will be his power to heal.

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