Editorial October 23, 1971 Issue

Help Without Direct Treatment

Naomi Price

So powerful was the Christ, the Truth that Jesus taught and demonstrated, that its influence healed many whose religious faith was totally foreign to his pure theology of Spirit.

A Syrophoenician woman proved this when she begged the Master to heal her daughter of an unclean spirit. In response to her insistent plea, Jesus said, "It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs." And she replied, "Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs."^{Mark 7:27, 28;}

There was a great distance between her traditional religious beliefs, steeped in Greek mythology, and the Christian teaching of one all-powerful God, good, the Father of all, who cares for His children with inexhaustible, impartial love. Yet the power of this Christly understanding penetrated her false belief and healed her daughter. When she returned home, the Bible says, "She found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed."^{v. 30;}

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