Article November 23, 1946 Issue

How Does Christian Science Heal?

EDITH MARY SCOTT

The fact that Christian Science heals is now established beyond all doubt, and is generally admitted even by those who do not accept its teaching. However, it is often only when all material methods have failed that, like the woman who "had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered" (Mark 5:26), the sick and weary one turns to Christian Science and asks, "How does Christian Science heal?"

This Science heals as Jesus healed; that is, by the understanding, application, and demonstration of spiritual law—God's law— in human affairs. Jesus said (John 6:63), "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing," and this statement he proved by annulling every commonly accepted belief of material law. He walked on the water, demonstrating that spiritual not material law is the only law. He fed a great multitude with a few loaves and fishes, annihilating the belief of lack and demonstrating the infinite, ever-present supply of Spirit, divine Mind. He stilled the waves, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, feet to the lame. He raised the dead, and finally triumphed over death, the "last enemy."

Had Jesus believed that human discords were real, could he have healed them? No. But because he saw through error's lie to this effect, he was able to destroy discord, whether it was sin sickness, lack, or death. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 476): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick."

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