Article February 6, 1937 Issue

True Forgiveness Heals

MARY SANDS LEE

Much of what Christian Science teaches in regard to healing and redemption is indicated in Mrs. Eddy's wonderful statement (Science and Health, p. 201), "The way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour in truth through flood-tides of Love." When a Christian Scientist can demonstrate love sufficiently in his own thought of everyone, this love will eventually sweep away every appearance of error.

When one is able to demonstrate a love so gentle, so strong, so constant, that one naturally knows the perfection of man, and is unafraid to be true to God and maintain his acknowledgment of this perfection, the world will again have such healings as Jesus performed. Healing will then be continuous. Love that includes all, naturally blesses all. The love that cannot be persuaded to doubt the integrity of Love's creation, or to doubt Love's omnipresence and power, so obliterates the belief of another power or reality that nothing can hinder the demonstration of good's supremacy. Such demonstration is the acme of Christian Science healing which every consecrated Christian Scientist holds as his ideal.

Christian Science healing is based on the fact of God's allness, as set forth by our Leader in "the scientific statement of being" (ibid., p. 468), and this is practical forgiveness of oneself and of others, because, in order to prove the allness of God, one is obliged to reject all claims unlike good and to prove them unreal. Progressive demonstration of the healing efficacy of Christian Science therefore depends upon a progressively forgiving attitude of thought; but one must forgive himself before he can truly forgive another. The Scriptural command, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and ... thy neighbour as thyself," involves the necessity of loving oneself, of preserving and maintaining the nature of one's own true being as the reflection of Mind. In no other way can one fully put off the claim of resentment, put off the corruptible and put on incorruption. And one must forgive others, all others, in order truly to forgive himself and to escape the misery imposed by corporeal sense.

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