Article January 10, 1953 Issue

HEALING

JEANNE ROE PRICE

Healing is the fulfillment of divine law.

In the tenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark is the record of the healing of the blind beggar Bartimaeus. One day as he was sitting by the highway near Jericho begging, Jesus and his disciples passed by. Bartimaeus was told by his friends of the Master's presence, and loudly, eagerly, he called after him, "Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me." Those about him urged him to be quiet, but "he cried the more a great deal. Thou son of David, have mercy on me." "And Jesus stood still," the record reads, and commanded Bartimaeus to be called; whereupon the blind man, "casting away his garment," arose and went to him. "What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?" the Master asked him. And Bartimaeus replied, "Lord, that I might receive my sight." Jesus said to him, "Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole." And we read that "immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way."

The garment which Bartimaeus cast away was probably, the most precious possession that he had. Yet willingly, lest it impede his progress, he discarded it as he went forward. What else of even more importance than the encumbering garment did Bartimaeus cast away? Was it not the beliefs of beggardom, limitation, and blindness, which he had accepted as his own? Casting these away, he could approach the Master unburdened, unfettered, and with the childlike faith and expectancy which is completely receptive to the healing Christ. "Willingness to become as a little child," Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 323, 324), "and to leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of the advanced idea. Gladness to leave the false landmarks and joy to see them disappear,—this disposition helps to precipitate the ultimate harmony."

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