Article March 21, 1959 Issue

"THOU CANST MAKE ME CLEAN"

PAUL H. EAMES

"If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean" (Luke 5: 12). With these words to Jesus nearly two thousand years ago, a man in great need acknowledged the healing power of the Christ and was instantaneously healed of leprosy. Christian Science declares that the opportunity for healing afforded this man is available to each one of us today, no matter what the difficulty may be.

Perhaps some reader is thinking, "How can the opportunity still be present to be healed as this man was healed, since Christ Jesus, who did the work, is no longer here?" No, Jesus is not present, but the Christ is. The Christ, the power of divine Truth and Love, which Jesus demonstrated, is always present. Mary Baker Eddy makes it abundantly clear in her writings that the Christ is wholly spiritual. She says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 333), "Throughout all generations both before and after the Christian era, the Christ, as the spiritual idea, —the reflection of God,—has come with some measure of power and grace to all prepared to receive Christ, Truth."

The Christ-power, which Jesus employed to heal the leper, is the eternal manifestation of God, ever reaching out to human consciousness with its purifying touch, ever available to reform and heal mankind.

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