Article March 22, 1952 ISSUE

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING

FLOYD C. SHANK

A Common misconception of Christian Science healing is shown in the saying that Christian Science may be good for mental difficulties, but when it comes to physical disorders, something material must be done. This inaccurate view springs from the teaching that mental and physical diseases are distinct from each other and must therefore be treated by separate and distinct methods.

Jesus healed both physical and mental illnesses by the one divine power. He taught his followers to do the same. In the Gospel of Luke it is written (9:1), "Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases." No distinction was made. To Jesus what mortals ordinarily call physical disease was apparently but a phase of mortal thought. By means of immortal Mind he corrected, or "cast out," all erroneous processes of mortal mind, including errors, or "devils," termed physical.

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