Article April 9, 1949 Issue

The miracles performed by Christ Jesus: an explanation to widen our horizons

RECEIVING THE CHRIST

BERNERD L. WELLS

The inspiring accounts in the Holy Scriptures of the miracles performed by Christ Jesus are to many beautiful stories illustrating God's great love for man. But such readers do not see in them the proof of an ever-operative divine Principle and are unaware of how to emulate Jesus' works.

Implicit in this attitude is the belief that only Jesus and a very few other Biblical personages, long since passed from the world's scene, could perform these so-called miraculous works, and that these few were specially privileged by God to exercise divine power. To believe thus is to disregard, indeed to repudiate, Jesus' own words (John 14:12), "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."

Jesus' works were consonant with his words. These works were examples of the practical application of his precepts. Christian Science proclaims the equivalence of Jesus' words and works. It recognizes the potent value of both and of the whole record of Jesus' ministry to every man in every age.

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