Editorial June 29, 1940 Issue

"Semper paratus"

George Shaw Cook

Refuting the fallacy that it is necessary to sustain the so-called physical body by material means until divine Mind is ready to heal it, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 458): "Divinity is always ready. Semper paratus is Truth's motto."

It should be evident to thoughtful persons that Truth, which is omniactive, ever present, and always available, does not have to wait even momentarily to become operative in the healing of disease. Christ Jesus proved this in numbers of instances, recorded in the Gospels, in which he demonstrated the healing power of Truth. For example, the Gospel records that when a leper appealed to him for healing, "Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed." And Luke, writing of the healing of the blind man, says that "immediately he received his sight."

The foregoing instances prove that, as Mrs. Eddy says, "Divinity is always ready;" and in Christian Science practice this is often proved to be a fact. Many cases of instantaneous healing occur under Christian Science treatment. Some of these cases are recorded in The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel, and some are testified to in the Wednesday evening meetings in Christian Science churches. "Before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear," said the prophet.

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