Article April 16, 1949 Issue

Is the practitioner ever "under pressure"? He must recognize God as the healer

HEALING THROUGH DIVINE LOVE

WILL B. DAVIS

"He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things." According to this inspired declaration, God, divine Love, is the only true giver. From a human standpoint discord seems real and disease and lack seem to have a creative cause. Good does not, however, produce evil, for a fundamental truth given in the first chapter of Genesis, upon which we may safely base all right reasoning, is that God, Mind, made all that was made and it was good.

It follows that the mind called carnal in the Bible and named mortal mind in Christian Science must be illusive and cannot be a creator of reality. The discords of human living are the expression, then, of a counterfeit mortal mind. We prove through Christian Science treatment that these discords may be eliminated, or healed, through a realization that the divine Mind is the only giver and is continually imparting good and only good to man, who is made in God's image and likeness.

A Christian Science treatment is not the influence of one human mind on another human mind. Such a false conclusion would indicate a belief that it is the practitioner's human mind which heals. Christian Scientists are endeavoring to follow the example of Christ Jesus, and he made it clear that he depended on the Father, the divine Mind, for his healing ability. How could he have said this more plainly than in the words (John 14:10), "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works"?

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