Article March 19, 1979 Issue

The scope of Christian Science healing

LELA MAY AULTMAN

When Jesus commanded his followers to heal the sick, he did not confine their work to certain types of disease. By example he proved that the law of God operates effectively to meet all needs.

Whether a cripple, impotent for thirty-eight years, or a woman, bowed over for eighteen years, that person received healing without Jesus' asking for a medical name or material history of the illness. The Master discerningly applied the law of God, which healed the case. Such healings came as readily as when he cured leprosy, blindness, or sin. He even accomplished surgical healing for himself during his three days in the sepulcher.

The naturalness of good—the spiritual perfection of God's creation—was so clear to Christ Jesus that it gave him conscious spiritual authority over lies about man. When a centurion asked him to help his servant who was tormented with palsy, Jesus replied spontaneously, "I will come and heal him." Matt. 8:7; He had no doubt. And of course the servant was healed. Jesus was so sure the healing power belonged to God that many who saw his healings understood this also, and "glorified God, which had given such power unto men." 9:8;

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