Article July 27, 1940 Issue

"It's mine"

JEANNE ROE PRICE

MANKIND claims many things as its own. "It's mine," cries the child, among his first spoken words. "It's mine," cries humanity, the world over, of good or bad, health or disease, riches or poverty, success or failure.

It is recorded in the Bible that once, as Jesus was teaching, a woman was present who was "bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself." Jesus, seeing her, called her to him, and with compassion spoke to her these immortal words: "Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity." And immediately, the record states, she was made straight and glorified God. Eighteen years had she carried the burden of sickness and infirmity, yet immediately through the power of the Christ, Truth, she was healed—was straight.

The experience of this woman in the Scriptures illustrates human experience today. Men and women of all races and climes believe themselves to be "bowed together" with infirmities of many kinds—physical, economic, and social. They, also, even as the woman of long ago, are seeking the truth, are searching for an answer to their problems; and many are finding the answer in Christian Science. Truth is available here and now. The understanding of the omnipotence and omnipresence of God is usable and efficacious in human affairs. The Science of Christ, Christian Science, is freeing men from bondage of all kinds, and proving that good, not evil, is their legitimate heritage. Today, through the same Christ, Truth, which Jesus demonstrated, infirmities called sin and sickness, sorrow and want, disappear into nothingness. Through the understanding that God is infinite, unchanging, eternal good, we see that, as Mary Baker Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 539), "God could never impart an element of evil, and man possesses nothing which he has not derived from God."

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