Article January 15, 1949 Issue

Christian Science proves, as did Jesus, that disease is a false state of thought and that divine Mind heals it

THE CERTAINTY OF CHRISTIAN HEALING

ALEXANDER A. LE M. SIMPSON

Christian Science solves every problem with certainty. Whatever the problem, be it lack of health, proper employment, adequate supply, or human affection, we can always start with the truths of God and man which are found in the first chapter of the Scriptures and upon which the teaching of Christian Science is based.

All that God creates, the universe and man, is very good, that is, perfect and spiritual; for God, the perfect Mind, can create nothing differing from His own perfect nature. Man, His offspring, image or likeness, being perfect, sickness, poverty, discord, or any other error is never a condition of his being. Although so-called physical disease claims to be a condition of man, it cannot be, for man, being the image, reflection, of God, who, the Bible says, is Spirit, must necessarily be spiritual and incorporeal. Where, then, does the discordant condition exist?

It does not exist in matter; nor is it a condition of the material body. When the one who was "full of leprosy" entreated Jesus for help (Luke 5:12), it must have seemed to him very much a condition of his body. But when Jesus "put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be thou clean," we read that "immediately the leprosy departed from him." The disease vanished completely before the realization of the spiritual truth of being, namely, that man is Godlike, clean, free from any imperfection. Was not Jesus proving what Moses had learned of the mental nature of disease centuries before at the burning bush when on drawing his hand from his bosom he saw it to health by refusing to accept in his thought this condition as having reality (Ex. 4:6, 7)?

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