Article June 16, 1934 Issue

Salvation and Healing

EDMUND HOGG

It has been said that Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and author of its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," can be likened to the good Samaritan, whose Christly actions are related in one of Jesus' parables. This is a wholly righteous view to have of one whose unique labors for the welfare of humanity were founded on the demonstrable teachings of the man of Nazareth. For today thousands rise up to say that when all material means have failed, the true understanding of God as Love, divine Principle, brought through Christian Science, has healed them of both acute and chronic disease, has cast out sinful tendencies and fear of evil, and has brought them unspeakable peace.

Mrs. Eddy perceived that humanity has one implacable foe, namely, its own belief in and fear of evil as if it were an actual power opposed to God. She has restated the central truth contained in the Scriptures, that God is, and that "there is none else beside him." God being good and infinite, evil, the supposed opposite of infinite good, must be resisted at every point of belief and a demonstration be made of man's God-given dominion over it. Anyone may prove for himself that, as taught and demonstrated according to Christian Science, this is the way pointed by the Master.

Like the good Samaritan, our Leader felt compassion for the stricken, those fallen by the wayside of human life's journey, those wounded by the spiritual barrenness of human systems of thought based on the supposed reality of matter and precluding the hope of present salvation from sin, sickness, and death. Her teachings point ever to the allness and the supreme control of Spirit, God. Only on this basis can permanent healing results be obtained and human salvation be correctly worked out.

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