The Washington herald., 1916-11-12
ROBERT NALL EXPLAINS
scientific HEALING"
Writes Extensive Article for Christian
Science Sentinel.
Ronert Nall saws:

mental concept presents itself as We think
Of health? What are the critertA oy
which we Judge Of its nature and q9ality
To be free from physical trouble, TO De
blessedly exempt from medical attention.
from the need of any Of the remedies
eatalOsued In the pharmaeopoeia - thls'
the average man claims. entities hirn 10
be elassed as healthy. That u where the
Christian Scientist was before the scateS
fell from his eyes and he awoke from Ais
material dream. He now has wider
vision; his perception and his realization
Of health have broadened into the mani
festation of the activity of good, into the
operation of divine principle.
TT Is a tribute to the divine authenticity
Of Christian Science that while in is
demonstration it Is ready to give US all
we need, u depriyes US Of nothing that Is
Of any worth. The mental faculties, when
clarified by the metaphysical process,
present many things in new light; these
are eogniZed from a different viewpoint.
Life itself takes on n richer hue, and the
present, in contrast with the past and the
future, assumes its rightful paramount
place in the daily and hourly recognition
of truths rule over error.
1T we have arrived at this point in our
understanding of Science, it is quite Ger
tain that We are establishing what Mrs.
Eddy calls 'the scientific sense Of
health" CScience and Health, p. S7S, and
we are privileged to interpret this in the
most comprehensive way. wilt thou be
made whole?" Is a question that Truth
submits to every one at some time or
other It is the voluntary offer of divine ,
love to the physical sufferer, to those in
despair to every victim OF mortal pas /
sion to all who are unconsciOusly adding |
to their toTments by the fear Of a score +,
Of things that never happen.
Christian Science in its expression of
divine truth By its very nature cannot ,
fN- rtal
thought alone discriminates; 1t cannot /
do otherwise. II holds that matter is the /
arbiter of life, which dictum covers the !
scope Of its provision for mans welfare; !
and matter being but a mental phenome- /
non, without power or reality, it is the
acme of futility to depend upon it for
health. Whether you think of health in |
its narrowest or in its broadest meaning, |
II Is never a product of that which has
no pace in the divine economy. If. there !
fore, We are not healed by God, as our .
leader over and over again emphasized. |!
then We are not healed at all.
ChristInn Science Impartial.
But with the enlarged understanding |
which follows the apprehension of spirit {,
Ual truth, il is seen that physical health /
takes a subordinate place in the great re-
demptive work of divine principle, al !
though popular thought enormously cred ,
primary place. God taught humanity /
through Christ Jesus. ard is still teach |
ing men through Christian Science, that
all healing. whether physical moral or
spiritual, Is the result OF the mental trans |
formation which attends the advent of
the Christ-COnSciousncss
There is 4 wholesome lesson to be /
learned here. No one wants to limit aC-
eeptance of Gods royal bounty. There /
fore the Christian Scientist can testify by !
both precept and example. in the measure |
Of his spiritual perception and his mental |
grasp Of the truth, that it is the emphatic !
mission of Christian Science to restore !
the spiritual selfhOOd, to bring 10 light
''the new man. which after God Is created
in righteousness and true holiness" the !
world largely thinks otherwise. even when !
confronted by demOnstrable facts. The |
only way to convince the world that K Is
wrong is 10 go on demonstrating; to show
that in the whole gamut of errors DESC
lating sway, in the long list of moral !
wrecks that strew the path Of evils infiu-
ence, there is no erroneous mortal condi- :
ton hopeless desperate that it is
not amenable to the healing potency u
truth.
The Prayer of Faith.
'-To -,E wholly and absolutely on God
for eve, s.H.D- lr give thanks to Him for
everythu.- e, p.. -ent infallible evidence
that tn, 8. "a, cF ,,f Iaith that is, of under
stLncint Eas Ay.,Iing efficacy: to attest
BY the ovL., -....g.,s of disease and the de-
struCtiUn OF SIN. by unmistakabIe ethical
effects. ana by spiritual change whicH /
reveals the impersoTal idea Of goOd-to do
all this as showing that the divine pur-
pose is being fultled In each one OF US as
we come to A right understanding of God
uLt ~" render gladly TO His will. Is to
JaAe 3 DOJ!e art in the ministry of scien-
tifc healing. And can the recipient of
loves healing balm do otherwise? A
faithful ambassador Is health, said the
wise man of old: or. to put it in another
way. he that TCiOices in some conception
and expression OF the divine Wilderness
which is his real being in TRUTH will be, |
TO quote the marginal reading of the text
above quoted, an ambassador OF faith
fulness.'
But are there not Christian Scientists
who lament that their practical appIica-
tion of the truth does not attain within
even measurable distance Of their ideals
This mental attitude, If unGuly main
tained, NAV become a burden and a
hlndrance, that is, in belief. Then it is
time to ask ourselves whether we are
really seeking to conform to Divine
Loves standard, whether our faith has
50 grown into knowledge, and our knowl-
edge into understanding. that spiritual
- law Is as available and operative now
as 1t was when Jesus demonstrated it. |
A prayeTful and spiritual study of the
supreme purpose of the life and work Of
Jesus, and closer knowledge of the
gradual embodiment OF the truth to our
Leader. often serve to dissipate thel
mists of fear. doubt and discouragement
which seem to encircle the upward path
Mortal thought obscures and debases
Spiritual or scientific thought enlightens,
teaches and elevates. Its healing lies not
only in the purity of its design, embodied
In the reconciliation of man to God, but
In its direct simplicity"