Article April 23, 1938 Issue

Christian Science is associated in the thought of many...

Excerpts from an address given before the Junior Imperial League, Mile End, London, August 31, 1937, by Lieut.-Col. Robert E. Key, District Manager of Committees on Publication for Great Britain and Ireland

Christian Science is associated in the thought of many people with the subject of spiritual healing, and it is correct to say that the healing of both sickness and sin forms an inseparable part of the practice of Christian Science. Many of you are no doubt readers of the Bible, including both the Old and the New Testament; and throughout the sacred writings you will have noticed a great deal of attention is given, especially in the Gospels, to healing work. In the New Testament, many cases of healing are recorded, including those of so-called incurable diseases, such as deafness, dumbness, blindness, palsy, insanity, leprosy, and many others. Moreover, the recovery of the afflicted persons did not depend on time or material processes. Health and freedom instantaneously appeared. The sick man immediately became whole; the lame man immediately walked; the blind man immediately received his sight; the sinner was immediately cleansed.

These healings were not confined to any one class or type of society. Rich and poor, young and old, simple and intellectual, all shared the precious gift which our Master so willingly bestowed. Moreover, the power to heal was not conferred on only one, especially chosen of God to carry out this work. Healing the sick, and even raising the dead, was an integral part of the teaching of the early Christian church.

Many of you when reading the Gospel narratives must have asked yourselves the questions, "Why cannot these works be done today?" "Is the gift of healing bestowed only on privileged persons, or is the power of God a universal power, available to all alike?" Christian Science declares, and proves by "signs following," that the healing work associated with the first and second centuries of the Christian era is being done today on an extensive scale through Christian Science. Every Wednesday evening in Christian Science churches and societies the world over, an inquirer may listen to remarkable evidence from the "man in the street," as to the efficacy and availability of God to destroy all forms of discord. Some of the speakers express their gratitude for help received through Christian Science practitioners. Others will relate instances of healings which they have been able to work out for themselves with the help of the Bible and of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Through these meetings there runs a note of deep sincerity and thankfulness for the rediscovery of the spiritual healing which was ushered in by Christ Jesus nearly two thousand years ago, and which for centuries had been lost sight of, except in isolated instances, until the discovery of Christian Science, in February, 1866, by a spiritually-minded New England gentlewoman, Mary Baker Eddy.

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