Arizona republican., 1920-08-30
''HEALING"


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 Denial of the possibility of Christian healing" says Mary Baker Eddy, ''robs Christianity of the very element which gave it deyine force and its astonish ing and unequaIIed success in the first century" (Science and Health, D 134.) so the discoVerer and founder of Christian Science states one of the great facts of Christion history. The fast that through many centuries the world has been taught to believe that the healing work done by Jesus and his immediate disciples was a special 1 dispensation of providence" a special order which could not be, and was not intended to be generally followed, has resulted in a complete misapprehen- | sion of the significance of the healing itself and of the place it occupied in the ministry of Jesus.
 During the last sixteen hundred years, at any rate, immeasurably more attention has been given to Jesus words than to his works At best his works were regarded merely as proofs of his divine mission; that they were, l as a matter of fact, the practical dem 1 onstration of his doctrine, a demon station without some display of which no one could rightly call himself his follower, what is called orthodox Chris | tIanity has never admitted, nor as far as there is any evidence to show. even considered. And yet, it must be clear to anyone who will study the brief story of Jesus ministry that has come down to us in the four gospels, study it with some attempt to visualize even its historical significance, that the works of Jesus, in the widest sense of that term, must have occupied an al-
 together commanding place in the view of the multitudes who heard him or heard of him, during those tre- mendous three years, in the first half of the first century.
 For it is not, of course to be sup posed that the healing works of Jesus were confined to those recorded in the gospels. John, in the last chapter of his gospel has left record that there were many other things that Jesus did over and above those that he records,
 so many that, as he puts it, in the fig
 uratiVes language fthe East, sir they should be written every one, l suppose
 that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be writ ten" Without doing more than just noting the fact that this vast array l Of unrecorded fact is concerned with what Jesus did" and not with what he said, 1t may be said that the gospel l narratives are, of course, quite suffi- cient to indicate the tremendous stress which Jesus laid on healing and the | tremendous extent to which 1t occupied his time.
 The gospel writers are men of few i words. scenes, the like of which the world has never seen before or since, | they describe in a few short sentences. Take, for instance, that portrayal in
 the first chapter of Mark and the | fourth chapter of Luke, the scene in | Capernaum on the day that Jesus 1 healed Simmons wife's mother of few | CT. Before that. he had been teaching | in the synagogue, and had healed a aff-Tf of Isassy7 | devil All the people were stirred and
 amazed and the fame of him went out | into every place of the country round | about; so much so that. in the even ing, when the sun was setting, the | people came to him evidently in vast
 throngs, bringing their sick to be l healed; and, as Luke records, he laid | his hands on every one Of them, and | healed them Mark with his usual | NiVidness, affords a brief glimpse of i what all this must have meant when 1 he tells how, whilst this tremendous | scene was being enacted, "all the city
 was gathered together at the door," l Ana then the story goes on to tell how Jesus rose up very early in the morn | Ing before it was day and went into l desert place to pray, but how "the 1 people sought him. and came unto him,
 and stayed him, that he should not de- 1 part from them." And this can only | have been one of many such scenes. i Now this healing to which Jesus ob- l vlously attached so great importance l ne enJolned upon his disciples as i paramount duty, and unequiYocally de- l clafed that the power to do the works ] that he did and even greater works 1 would be the privilege of every one l who believed on him, Of every one, that 1 IS, who understood, in a measure, the i rather to whom he always resorted, 1 or in other words. Principle. upon : which he relied and which he ever ] demonstrated. It is this understand 1 ing of Principle, of the reality of all l things that Mrs. Eddy, through her ] discovery of Christian Science, has i given back to the world T knew" i she writes on page 109 of Science and 1 Health, speaking of her discovery of l Christian Science, "the Principle of all i harmonious Mind action to be God. and that cures were produced in primitive ! Christian healing by holy, uplifting faith; but l must know the Science of i this healing, and l won my way to ab solute conclusion through divine reve- ! iatlon, reason, and demonstration"
 One of these absolute conclusions Mrs i Eddy has recorded on page 46S of the same book, in the words. There is nc ] life, truth, intelligence. nor substance ! in matter. All is infinite Mind and it's 1 infinite manifestation. for God is Alt | in-alI. Mrs. Eddr healed the sick i through the understanding of Principle enunciated in this statement, and, in 1 her writings, she has so further made { the way plain that all who study them
 may be healed, and may learn, them 1 selves, how to carry out Jesus injunC- ] ton to heal the sick. And this is be-