Editorial September 20, 1975 Issue

The Truth: Are We Knowing or Just Declaring It?

Geoffrey J. Barratt

The sick can be healed by Christian Science prayer. This has been proved in innumerable instances for many decades.

We can heal the sick by understanding the illimitability of Spirit and the nothingness of matter, in which disease seems to inhere. But the method of Christian Science healing is not in manipulating human thought—its method is not merely to persuade or suggest to sufferers that their suffering is not true. Its method is scientific and spiritual and involves understanding and knowing immutable facts. It is not simply a verbal activity, either mentally or audibly verbal. Mrs. Eddy insists: "The sick are not healed merely by declaring there is no sickness, but by knowing that there is none."^{Science and Health, p.447;}

Sickness is not healed by mortals shallowly talking about God, discussing His goodness and love. It is not healed by superficially conversing about "man's perfection as Mind's image," true as this is. Healing comes about through the deep knowing—the acknowledgment, feeling, and conviction—that God's allness has outlawed even the least instance of disease throughout all time and eternity.

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