Article February 13, 1971 Issue

Trust That Hastens Healing

CYRIL ALEXANDER BARBER

When we ask help of a Christian Science practitioner, especially in our early experience of Christian Science, do we do all we can to make ourselves ready for healing? Do we help the practitioner to help us?

There is an astonishing record in the Gospel of Mark that when Christ Jesus came into "his own country," where he had been brought up and lived as a young man, "he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them."^{Mark 6:1, 5;} We can be sure that he was surrounded by people in deep need of healing, as he was elsewhere in his mission. His love had not changed, his power was not diminished. But the healings he accomplished so abundantly among strangers were more difficult among those who had seen him grow up and who knew him as "the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon."^{v. 3;}

For full comprehension of this phenomenon we need the insight into the nature of Jesus given us by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. She writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "Jesus is the name of the man who, more than all other men, has presented Christ, the true idea of God, healing the sick and the sinning and destroying the power of death. Jesus is the human man, and Christ is the divine idea; hence the duality of Jesus the Christ."^{Science and Health, p. 473;}