Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-05-01

when it is finished, and every mortal
thought has been brought into sub
lection to Christ, then man will be
transformed from shining, suffer
ing mortal into state of peace and
harmony. The carnal mind with its
sin and superstition produces the con-
ditions that lead to death, while to
be spiritually minded, that is to have
the mind that was in Christ Jesus, "is
life and peace" Christian Science
teaches that this is the precise pro-
cess by which human beings are
saved from sickness and sin.
1t will thus be seen that Christian
Science healing in every case is spirit
ual, and results from the operation
of Truth or divine Principle in human
consciousness, and not from the ac-
tion of one human mind upon an
other, nor from human will, nor from
hypnotism, nor from mental sugges-
tion.
To summarize the matter in a sin
gle sentence, it can be said that
Christian Science healing is accom-
plished through the activity of right
thinking and right living, and in no
other way can one demonstrate the
Principle that heals.
Honest Skepticism About Healing BY
Spiritual Means.
Although the healing of physical
and mental diseases by spiritual
means was widely practiced, both in
Old Testament and New Testament
times, and was expressly commanded
by Jesus, and, although Christian
Science during the last fifty years has
actually healed in this way large
numbers of people from all kinds of
physical and mental diseases, there
are still a great many people who
honestly find it difficult to under
stand how it is possible for the sick
to be healed without drugs, and en-
tirely by spiritual means. Even
among those who profess to believe in
the Bible and in the omnipotence of
God, there are many who have honest
doubts that the power of God is suf-
ficient or available to deliver from
sickness, and these doubts often pre-
vent the effort to gain an under
standing of the way by which spirit
ual healing is accomplished.
To all such it can be said that
Jesus healed the sick without drugs,
and, what is more important to us,
he taught other people how to do so,
thus proving that his method of heal
ing physical disease by spiritual
means could be taught to others, and
understood and practiced by them.
AS the disciples walked up and
down the country with Jesus, listen
ing to his explanations of spiritual
truth, and watching him apply this
truth to human needs as he healed
the leper, the lame, the deaf, the
blind, whom he met by the wayside,
they began to understand for the first
time that divine Love is adequate to
meet every human need, and that
Jesus has come to teach the way
whereby every one might learn how
to prove it,
Some of the disciples seemed to
grasp this truth and the manner of
its demonstration very slowly, but to
them all there finally came a time
when Jesus considered that they had
made sufficient progress to prove it
for themselves. He then sent them
forth with the command that they
heal the sick, cleanse the lepers and
raise the dead, and the Bible records
that they were able to do so.
Later these same disciples taught |
the Principle of spiritual healing
which they had learned from Jesus
to their own disciples, and history
shows that on down through a period |
of about ten generations the healing
of the sick by spiritual means con-
tinued to be a part of the regular
of the Christian church, and
that the dead were raised during the
first and second centuries. Moses
and the prophets also healed the sick
and raised the dead and did many
other wonderful works in demonstra-
ton of the power of spirit to meet
human needs, and the Old Testament
Is filled with such instances.
1t will thus be seen that the knowl-
edge of spiritual truth, and the meth
cd of its application to deliver peo-
pie from sickness, sin, and every kind
of evil human condition, has reap
peared upon the earth at many times,
and it is claimed for Christian Science
that it is the temperance in our own
generation of the understanding of
the same spiritual law that was
NEAREST TO EVERYTHING
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