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Healing
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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January 28, 1933 issue
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Christian Science and the Reparable Past
ANDREW J. GRAHAM
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Pilgrims and Strangers
FRANCES DE WITT JOHN
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Giving Testimony
A. LINCOLN ROTHBLUM
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Division and Multiplication
ETHEL PUTNAM
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Healing of Loneliness
CORINNE M. MC CONNICO
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Ushering, a Sacred Privilege
EARL ALBERT RUSSELL
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Walking with God
MYRTLE R. BIGGINS
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God Will Not Let Me Go
HENRY H. LINDSEY
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A book review in Saturday's Post was correct when it...
Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,
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A telegraphic item in the Northern Miner states what a...
Miss Edith L. Thomson, former Committee on Publication for Queensland, Australia,
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As an item recently appearing in your columns tends to...
Ralph W. Still, former Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
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The teaching that God is All-in-all is the corner stone...
Extracts from an Address delivered by Alfred Johnson, Christian Science Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England, before the Malton Clerical Society
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Healing
Duncan Sinclair
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Christian Conversion
W. Stuart Booth
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The Lectures
with contributions from Ellison M. Walker, Emma Woodbury Carney, Frederick P. Schenck, Lloyd H. Langdon, Oscar Anderson
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I want to express my gratitude for Christian Science
Mattie Mae Templeman
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One way I may prove my gratitude for the healing through...
Mary E. Hainey
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I turned to Christian Science for help when I did not know...
Pruyn Francis Sarber
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About seventeen years ago Christian Science came into...
Florence V. Lawler
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I should like to tell how I came to Christian Science, and...
Emily C. Whitelaw
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I am very grateful for having been privileged to perceive...
Martha Zschiesche
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Since 1919 the truth of Christian Science has been everything...
Mathilda Westendorp
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That Blessed Morn
MARIE ENGLE JOHNSON
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Walter Lippmann, Richard H. Bennett, Israel Goldstein, James Reid