Article September 22, 1945 Issue

Better Healing

IRENE KENT

Students of Christian Science yearn to obey the sacred injunction of the Master to "heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils" (Matt. 10:8). They seek to approximate the works of him whose commands, "Arise, and walk," and, "Go in peace, and be whole of thy plague," were obeyed instantly by those who sought his help. With great zeal and consecration they turn to the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, that they may grow in grace and in the understanding of perfect God and perfect man which, when correctly applied, results in healing.

In an article entitled "The Way," Mrs. Eddy sounds the call for better healing work on the part of her followers. She says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 355), "Less teaching and good healing is to-day the acme of 'well done;' a healing that is not guesswork,— chronic recovery ebbing and flowing.—but instantaneous cure." And as requisites for such healing work she gives, in the remainder of the article, these three essentials: self-knowledge, humility, and love.

Closely connected with every healing, whether for ourselves or for another, is the demand for self-knowledge and self-purification, the casting out of the beam from our own eye, that we may discern, with clarity of vision, whatever would offend spiritual sense. Many a healing has occurred as a result of the practitioner's stanch refusal to admit into his thought, even for an instant, a false concept of anything God has created.

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