Article February 12, 1977 Issue

The Way of Healing

BEATRICE M. JEWITT

Christian Science shows us how to heal. I have experienced its healing, and thousands of others have too. Its effectiveness has been proved time and again. Christian Science helps mankind find the true way of life as taught and lived by our Master, Christ Jesus; and in this, healing is of major importance as evidence of the truth of his teachings. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes: "The testimony of the material senses is neither absolute nor divine. I therefore plant myself unreservedly on the teachings of Jesus, of his apostles, of the prophets, and on the testimony of the Science of Mind. Other foundations there are none."^{ Science and Health, p. 269;}

At one time I gave much special thought to the question of how Christ Jesus healed, and sought in the scriptural accounts of Jesus' words and works the authority for Mrs. Eddy's presentation of spiritual truth and its healing power. I considered the basic requirements for healing in Christian Science: love for God and man, faith in God's Word, and obedience to the truth as far as we understand it. I found it easy to see that in all this Christian Science follows

Jesus implicitly. Love—God's love for us reflected in our love for Him and for one another—is the major theme of Jesus' teaching and the motivation of his healing work. The faith of sufferers in God's healing power, Jesus pointed out more than once, enabled them to be healed. Obedience to Jesus' commands—to the paralytic to get up and walk, to a cripple to raise a withered hand, to a blind man to wash in the pool of Siloam, and to many others—proved that matter is powerless before the Word of God. The love, faith, and obedience that were integral to Jesus' life and teaching and basic to his healing work are essential to healing in Christian Science.

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