Editorial April 14, 1945 Issue

There Is Healing for the Wounded!

John Randall Dunn

Heartening word comes from the Allied battle fronts that the percentage of fatalities among our wounded is smaller than in any war of the past. Noble men and women in the medical profession, acting up to their highest lights, are, according to reports, achieving results which hitherto would have been regarded as miraculous. Do they realize what may lie at the root of their new-found successes? Can the medical and surgical triumphs of the day be attributed solely to certain material discoveries, to advancement in the knowledge of matter and its so-called laws? Let us see what is really at work in the human consciousness today—an influence the world at large knows not of.

In the thirty-third verse of the thirteenth chapter of Matthew's Gospel is recorded a significant prophecy of the great Master. He visualizes a woman taking leaven and hiding it "in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 118) that spiritually-minded woman, Mary Baker Eddy, writes: "Did not this parable point a moral with a prophecy, foretelling the second appearing in the flesh of the Christ, Truth, hidden in sacred secrecy from the visible world?" Then follows this cheering and illuminating declaration: "Ages pass, but this leaven of Truth is ever at work. It must destroy the entire mass of error, and so be eternally glorified in man's spiritual freedom."

In 1866, after the war for the abolition of slavery in the United States had been successfully concluded, a Christian woman made a momentous discovery, one which would strike from enslaved mortals everywhere the shackles of disease as well as of sin. She discovered the great truth that underlay the healings which are recorded in the Old and the New Testament.

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