Editorial October 21, 1961 Issue

The Law of Restoration

Helen Wood Bauman

There is a law of restoration available to the healing of every kind of physical disability, and Christian Science reveals it and explains its application. Christ Jesus demonstrated this spiritual law when he healed a man of a withered hand. According to Mark, the Master simply said (3:5), "Stretch forth thine hand." The record goes on, "And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other."

The mandate of our heavenly Father is for indestructible life and perpetual activity, and the real man—God's spiritual son—is held by this mandate in a continuing state of perfection. Because Christ Jesus understood that God's law cannot be broken but governs man invariably, he was able to wipe out the material evidence that contradicted the truth of man's immutability as God's image; and the withered hand was restored to its normal state.

Through Christian Science we learn that the very physical senses which are conscious of a disorder evolve that disorder and that belief produces its own effects. It is often an accepted human belief that damage done to the body cannot be undone. Such was the case of the man whose hand was withered. The belief of incurability had claimed to become a law of incurability that governed the hand. But the Master's understanding that God's law of activity is in full control without interruption forced the physical senses to reverse what they claimed to have done, and the hand was stretched out.

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