Milford chronicle., 1922-10-13
DELAY IN HEALING

DELAY IN HEALING
Perhaps some one may be mentally
saying at this point in the lecture, well,
if Christian Science can accomplish these
wonderful things, why is it that all sick
people are not healed?"
I pause long enough to give some rea-
sons why all sickness is not yet destroy
ed In doing this, let it be understood
that Christian Science itself never fails.
It is equal to the destruction of all error.
It is the absolute truth about God and
man. It is the human mind that fails.
This so-called mind obstinately refuses
to take itself away and let that mind
which was in Christ Jesus have full do
minion. The chief causes of delayed
healing are, first, Christian Science prac-
titioners have not yet reached the meas
ure of perfect practice. They do not
claim that they can realize healing at
once, for all who come to them. They
are able to heal some cases instantane-
ously, some are healed slowly, while there
are others they do not seem to be able
to reach AS practitioners learn more
about God and are more faithful to what
they do know, they will do better work
and more of it. In order to make this
progress in better healing it is necessary
to bear in mind what Mrs. Eddy writes
on pages 141 and 452 of Science anG
Health: For this Principle there is no
dynasty, no ecclesiastical monopoly. It's
only crowned head is immortal sover-
eighty. It's only priest is the spiritualiz-
ed mani" and Expect to heal simply by
repeating the authors words, by right
talking and wrong acting, and you will
be disappointed" The second reason we
assign why the multitude is not yet heal
ed is this: Probably more than nine
tenths of all the people on earth who call
themselves Christians are mildly or bit
terly opposed to Christian Science. This
great wall of ignorance and antagonfsm
must be reckOned with in Christian
Science healing. On one occasion even
Jesus could do no mighty works in a
certain locality because of prevalent un-
belief It is also recorded in the gospel
that before he could raise a little girl to
life he had to put his doubling disciples
and the parents of the maiden out of the
room. Each Christian Science practition-
err knows that a patient responds to
treatment much more readily if all the
members of his family have a loving
thought toward Christian Science. The
wall of opposition and antagonism must
be broken down! It is being broken
down. Each case healed in Christian
Science is the grain of mustard seed,
steadily growing, whose branches are
spreading over the earth. Let me illus
trate; It has been reckoned that if the
human heart, with its faint beating,
were laid against Cleopatra's Needle on
the Thames Embankment and should
continue to beat against it increasingly
for seventy years, it would crumble that
resisting shaft into dust. That is what
Christian Science is doing to the wall of
and antagonism. Each child
being healed through truth and crossing
over to Christian Science leaves an ad-
ditional breach in the wall. Two MEM
bers of a family, a dozen in a commun-
ity a hundred in district, a thousand in
city, hundreds of thousands through
out the world, represent great breaches
in the wall. The wall is crumbling, and
every case of genuine healing through
Christian Science ushers in the day of
better healing and more Of it.
Those desiring to be healed in Chris
tian Science should be willing to help to-
ward that healing. Yet many expect the
Christian Science practitioner to do It all.
They are unwilling to read, unwilling to
study unwilling even to think about the
truth. Such people are seldom healed.
The reason they are not healed is this:
A Christian Science healing is not hos
Dital operation; it is not merely physi-
,al change. It is the religion Jesus
taught and demonstrated. Christian
Science healing is moral as well as phys
cal It opens the understanding so that
)ne begins to know God-here and now.
Christian Science healing is salvation, |
md salvation is not something to be
.acked onto the outside of a man. It is a !
vellspring of life flowing UP from with |
n. Should there be in this audience
some weary one who longs for healing
rom chronic suffering, let this be sug-
gested: If he can gain a greater longing |
or some other mans healing than for his
,wn, he has made great advance to-
ward his own healing. This is the pow
,r of unsettled love.
THE PRoDIGAL SON
And now, to proceed with the main
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