How Does Christian Science Heal?

It heals by employing the divine truths of God and man that Christ Jesus taught and proved for us.  The teachings of Christian Science, which reiterate the words and works of our great Master make these healing truths available to every sincere seeker for God's help.


The purpose of Jesus' unequaled example was not merely to inspire mankind but to show us how to be free from every form of material bondage, physical suffering included.  He promised, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also" (John 1412).


This can be accomplished, however, only as one understands the spiritual laws underlying his words and deeds.  One would not expect to succeed in applying the laws of mathematics simply by admiring the professor's personality or even his instruction.  In like manner, the changeless Principle of Jesus' healing and teaching has to be learned.


This is explained fully and clearly in the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science.  The law of Spirit, God, is available for everyone to learn and use in his daily life.  When the spiritual truths are brought into contact with one's particular problem through prayer and purified living -- and it makes no difference whether the problem is physical, financial, emotional, or moral -- the result is the restoration of harmony, healing.


The first chapter of the Bible states that God created man in His own image and likeness.  In accordance with this original, true account of creation, students of Christian Science pray with the understanding that man and the universe are spiritual and perfect, here and now.


In the measure that one is able to see himself and others in this spiritual likeness, he is employing the Master's method, who healed sin, disease, and discord through spiritual means alone.  Mrs. Eddy writes:  "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation."  Then she continues, "now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural" (Science and Health, p. xi).


Spiritual understanding and application of the Christianly scientific, spiritual rules of Jesus' teachings have power to bring a return to normalcy.  As countless students of Christian Science have proved, well being is normal to man.

What our life can be

When love for God

And for His beloved Son

Is what motivates one

To do the things he does,

Does faithfully and in a

Meek and loving spirit,

As our dear Jesus did,

Life becomes richer in every way.

We find lasting purpose, joy, fulfillment

Obtainable in no other way.

And above all,

What God does through us

Will be the very things

That bring Him the glory.

A Christian Science Healing

For my readers unacquainted with the teachings of Christian Science and the proven fact that it heals, following is an account of health restored from reading and pondering Mary Baker Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures".  ("Miscellaneous Writings")

"I was sick six years, tried many physicians and remedies, but received no lasting benefit from any of them, and  concluded I must remain sick the rest of my life.  In this condition, I purchased the book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures", read it, was deeply interested, and noticed that my health began to improve; and the more I read the book, the better I became in health. This I can say truly: it did more for my health than all the physicians and remedies that I had ever tried."

Dr. S. G. Todd, Newburyport, Massachusetts


More next month on how Christian Science heals.

Christly Love -- Essential

We who follow Christ,

Who reverence the Name

Can't afford the shame

Of feeling unloving

Toward our fellowman.

I hope this traveler

Is learning when

Loving starts to slip,

It's more than a blip,

On the divine screen.

It's deadly serious

And needs to be

Corrected quickly.

Those times I haven't

Done this I regret.

                 And yet

There is always another day

When we can get ourselves

Safely back in the Way.

The worse thing about not loving

Is blatant disobedience to God,

Not that He ever stops loving us.

But our Father Who is all Love

Is not going to follow us

Out the door while we

Indulge in a little hate!

Do we want to lose the

Look of approval on His face?




As to Christly love being essential --

Our great Master puts it clearly:

"A new commanndment I give you,

That ye love one another,

As I have loved you.

That ye love one another."




               

Living on the Light

It has been said that poets

Live on the light of nature.

Well, those who write poems

To extol God's dear Son

Have to have that Light divine

          (At least I do).

Having a small part in

Enlightening a world so dark,

             Is no lark.

For me, it take ever greater

Staying close to God

Relying on the one Author

To hear what to write.

Relying on His inspiration --

       Not my own.


I thank God

I can't do it alone.

Our Oneness with God

        Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy is filled with uplifting, healing statements.  Among them is this:  "Jesus of Nazareth taught and demonstrated man's oneness with the Father, and for this we owe him endless homage." 


        Many students of Christian Science have found this truth of our oneness with God to be of immense help in their daily lives.  A friend of ours from Australia shared with me something his Sunday School teacher told them, something that brought him through many challenges.  Especially harrowing escapes when he was serving in the military in a jungle.  The teacher said, "You and God are not two, but one.  And that one is God."  Our friend never forgot this, and not only this thought of being one with God was the difference in a life and death situation  -- "a close run thing" he told us -- but he was completely and permanently healed from the malaria he had contracted.  He and the Christian Science practitioner he turned to for metaphysical help proved what an understanding of man's inseparability from his Maker can do for a person, in health problems as well as in all else that one encounters in life.

Overcoming Through Christ

          "Behold, I give unto you power
                    to tread on serpents and scorpions,
                        and over all the power of the enemy:
                                   and nothing shall by any means hurt you,
                                                                   our Lord and Master said
                                                                            (Luke 10:19)


          Let us fix so firmly in thought that we will
                       never, ever
                                        forget it that --


                Without Christ, we're sure to fail --
                With Christ we shall prevail.


                 Heaven sent,
                     Lovingly meant
                              To comfort me and you.