Article October 29, 1938 Issue

The Moral and Spiritual Demands of Healing

L. IVIMY GWALTER

The Christian Science church is founded on healing. According to the Historical Sketch which serves as foreword to the Manual of The Mother Church, it is "designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master," and to "reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing" (Manual, p. 17). Well may every Christian Scientist ask himself, How much am I doing of these works? In the Christian Science church there is no special class of members whose sole right it is to practice the art of healing. There are those, it is true, who are known as practitioners, and who devote their entire time to the healing work; but in the ratio of his fidelity, consecration, and love, every member is able to demonstrate in healing, the truth he understands. Demonstration is the privilege and duty which underlies church membership.

The basis of Christian Science healing is spirituality. Spiritual thinking is spiritual power. Christian Science is not a mortal mind method, the control of mind over mind, nor of mind over matter. It is the revelation of divine Mind, God, the revelation which has come to this age through its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy. It is the reiteration of the truth which Christ Jesus lived and practiced.

Hence the student of Christian Science learns constantly to examine the spiritual integrity of his thinking. He is never satisfied with his achievement along the lines of scientific demonstration. He wastes no time in self-adulation. Humbly he recognizes the healing power to be divine, and strives in his daily life to follow the example of the Master, whose command was, in substance, that we go into all the world and heal the sick.

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