The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-19

sentence, it can be said that Christian Science healing is accomplished through the activity of right thinking can one demonstrate the principle that feals
 HONEST SkEPTICISM
 Although the healing of physical and widely practiced. both in Old Testa- ment and New Testament times, ana was expressly commanded by JeSus. and although Christian Science Curing the last 90 years has actually. healed in this way large numpers ef people i'fffq,aa al k,edsr nf. 1and mental diseases, there are still great many people who honestly find it difficult to understand how 1t is possible for the sick to be healed without drugs, and entirely by spiritual means. Even among those who profess 10 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 sckness and these doubts often pre- ing of the way by which spiritua, bealing is accomplished
 1 To all such it can be said that Jesus healed the sick without drugs, and what is more import tant to us. he taught other people how to do so, thus proving that his method of healing physical disease by spiritual means could be taught to others and under stood and practiced by them.
 As the disciples walked up and down the country with Jesus. listening tc his explanations of spiritual truth ant watching him apply this truth to human needs as he healed the leper the lame. the deaf the blind, whom he met by the waysde. they 5egar to understand for the first time tha divine Love is adeauate to meet ever. human need and that Jesus has conn to teach the way whereby every on, might learn how to prove it.
 Some of the disciples seemed tt
 
 it's demonstration very slowly. but l. them all there finally came a tim when Jesus considered that they ha, made sufficient progress to prove i for themselves. He then sent then forth with the command that they hca the sick, cleanse the lepers. and rais the dead and the Bible records tha they were able to do so.
 Later these same disciples taugh the Principle of spiritual healin 4. whic.. they had learned from Jesus | , their own disciples. and history show that on down through period O about ten generations the healing o the sick by spiritual means continue to be part of the regular miristr of the Christian church. and that tn dead were raised during the first an second centuries. Hoses and tn prophets also heale. the sick an :, raised the dead and did many othe , wonderful works in demonstration o : the power of Spirit 10 meet huma needs and the Old Testament is file with such instances.
 It will thus be seen that the linowl : ] edge of spiritual truth and the metho
 of applicant ton to deliver people fror sickness. sin, and every kind of ev human condition has reappeared upo :, the earth at many times. and it i
 claimed for Christian Science that
 i, the reappearance in our own gen
 erdtion of the understanding of tn
 same spiritual law that was know
 and understood in part by Moses an
 the prophets, and which was perfectl 'i understood and demonstrated by Jesu! and by Him taught to his disciples Y There is no mystery about it. and tn results produced by Christian Scienc O are the results which have always fol g. lowed and must necessarily follow y from the apprehension and demonstra e ton of spiritual truth. Christian Sc ence is nothing more nor less than t return 10 primitive Christianity. an n every one who turns 10 1t fairly an 'e honestly will find in t that winch wi