Editorial December 22, 1951 Issue

THE CHRISTIAN HEALER

Helen Wood Bauman

Every student of Christian Science should be known as a Christian healer, as one who comforts others and acquaints them with God and with their true spiritual self. The Christian Scientist should be sought out by the grief-stricken, the sinner, the ailing, for he knows the spiritual facts that lift mortal burdens. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered this Science and made it available for the redemption of mankind, expected her followers to heal. She included in the Manual of The Mother Church a By-Law which reads in part (Art. XXX. Sect. 7), "I recommend that each member of this Church shall strive to demonstrate by his or her practice, that Christian Science heals the sick quickly and wholly, thus proving this Science to be all that we claim for it."

Striving to heal not only is a moral duty to the race, but is essential to one's own Christian development and salvation. In no other way can the kingdom of heaven, which Christ Jesus said is within us, be found. When we heal others, we are transforming our own consciousness, forsaking the temporal concept of creation for the spiritual idea of Mind, God. We are perceiving man and creation with the senses of Soul—the faculties of the real man. In this way we are proving the presence of our own immortal identity, which includes by reflection every spiritual idea in the vast and infinite universe of Mind. This transformation must continue until we know all things as God creates them and perceive only what our Father in heaven evolves.

Perhaps it was this lesson of the transformation of individual consciousness that Christ Jesus intended to convey in his parable of the mustard seed, "which indeed,"' he said, "is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof" (Matt. 13:32). Here is the symbolization of the tremendous development of good that must come to the individual, as well as the comfort and security this good affords to all.

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