Article April 7, 1973 Issue

Restoration to Wholeness

ANETTA G. SCHNEIDER

Mark's Gospel graphically records a complete healing of insanity.^{See Mark 5:1-15;} Jesus, on one occasion, approached a man possessed "with an unclean spirit." The man, perceiving "Jesus afar off,...ran and worshipped him."

Seeing the miserable plight of this sufferer, Jesus spoke to the error as one having authority over it: "Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit." What the insane man thought of as a legion of devils was destroyed, and the man himself was found "sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind."

The concept behind the "unclean spirits" of the Bible assumes new names and phases in our modern world, but it represents, as of old, that which would claim a mind apart from God, resisting the healing power of the Christ. This fundamental error takes form in a wide range of beliefs, including insanity, obsessions, senility, mental retardation—all of which have been cured in the healing practice of Christian Science.

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