Article March 26, 1960 Issue

BINDING "THE STRONG MAN"

JEANNE STEELY LAITNER

"No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house" (Mark 3:27). In commenting upon this parable of Christ Jesus, Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 400): "Mortal mind is 'the strong man,' which must be held in subjection before its influence upon health and morals can be removed. This error conquered, we can despoil 'the strong man' of his goods,—namely, of sin and disease."

This passage plainly points out, that when we are seeking healing through scientific prayer, we are grappling not with matter or a material condition, but with thought. With the recognition that disease is merely mistaken thought made manifest, one finds that the process of healing immediately appears simpler, and fear recedes.

What exactly takes place in this arena of thinking which leads to physical healing? An answer to this question is found in this statement in the Preface to Science and Health (p xi): "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation."

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