Article June 12, 1965 Issue

Instantaneous Healing

RAY D. KELSEY

To human sense the belief of living in a world whose activities are constantly gaining momentum grows stronger each day. Travel must be faster and faster. Time-consuming efforts are not easily tolerated. The trend to "instant" this, "instant" that, is more and more becoming part of the daily endeavor to conform to this pattern of thinking.

A trip along the aisles of a supermarket reveals many so-called "instant" foods, all designed to speed up cooking. As the writer made such a trip and saw these many items, he found himself rejoicing that through the study of Christian Science he had learned of the possibility of immediate, or instantaneous, healing. The possibility of such healing, instantly available in divine Mind, God, gives us spiritual food for thought.

The healings performed by our Master, Christ Jesus, were mainly of that type. In the thirteenth chapter of Luke we are told of the infirm woman who had been "bowed together" for eighteen years. Jesus did not recognize error's claim to a history or to any power to hold the woman in continued bondage. We read (verse 13), "He laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God."

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