Editorial January 28, 1985 Issue

Healing the troubled mind

CAROLYN B. SWAN

The sick in mind, as well as the sick in body, can be healed. The Bible extends to everyone God's tender promise "In me is thine help." Hos. 13:9.

Christ Jesus healed all manner of suffering. He awakened right-mindedness in those he healed. After the chronically troubled Gadarene man was restored, he was found "sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind." Luke 8:35.

Jesus' healing work was not based, however, merely on belief that God could heal. He understood his heavenly Father, whom he called Spirit, to be wholly good; he called the devil, or evil, a liar. He healed on the basis of the allness or reality of good and the consequent nothingness or unreality of evil—sin, sickness, death. Of Jesus' practice Mrs. Eddy states, "It was our Master's self-immolation, his life-giving love, healing both mind and body, that raised the deadened conscience, paralyzed by inactive faith, to a quickened sense of mortal's necessities,—and God's power and purpose to supply them." Pulpit and Press, p. 10.

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