Chapter VIII - Healing the Sick
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The demonstrations and explanations of Jesus em-
The demonstrations and explanations of Jesus em-
braced all the theology or materia medica necessary to
heal the sick or make Christians, and because he never
recommended materia medica, hygiene, physiology, etc.,
we infer these methods are anti-Christian. If, as the
Scripture saith, and science confirms, Jesus did the will
of God, we are not doing his will who follow not his
example, but resort to methods all our own.
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"Herbs for the healing of the nations" typified the
"Herbs for the healing of the nations" typified the
"balm in Gilead" and a physician there, even Soul the
healer, and science the balm, which was Spirit tri-
umphing over matter. Truth neither destroys Truth,
nor creates error to be destroyed. Life never destroys
Life, nor creates death to destroy it. Truth, or Life,
is not the author of sin or death, and there is neither
power nor Intelligence in matter. Sickness and death
are the opposites of harmony and Life, and no law can
support what Christ, Truth, destroys. The only law
in existence, or that we should acknowledge, is God, the
Principle of man, controlling man and matter. Spirit
is not personality, nor persons that have passed away;
and nature is God, hence it is Spirit and not matter.
Intelligence governs man and the universe, but never
instituted material law to govern them, and Spirit never
produced matter. The Bible contains all our recipes
for healing, and this is one of them:
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"Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art
"Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art
in the way with him, lest at any time the adversary de-
liver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to
the officer, and thou be cast into prison; verily I say
unto you, thou shalt not come out thence till thou hast
paid the uttermost farthing."
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This was one of our Master's rules for casting out
This was one of our Master's rules for casting out
error and healing the sick. It referred, however, not
to legal proceedings, or processes material, but to a
mental tribunal and judgment. The adversary was not
man, but error; and the directions, how to proceed with
sin or sickness that would impose through belief a pen-
alty for transgressing law that is not law, insomuch
as justice is the moral signification of law, and injus-
tice implies its absence. Shall a teacher pay the pen-
alty of sickness for performing well and faithfully her
tasks? or a great mind, because of the good it has
done, fall soonest a prey to disease? must man suffer
at the hands of God, for steadfastly doing right? Shall
the mother droop, or suffer, because of maternity, if
such is the design of her being? Because of fatigue,
exposure to cold, or some supposed infringement of the
so-called laws of health, we ignorantly admit there is
danger of being sick, and this mental position decides
the physical one; therefore, "agree with thine adver-
sary quickly;" say to this belief, "Get behind me,
satan, for thou savorest not the things that are of God,
but those that are of man;" it is not a broken moral
law to which your penalty is attached, but a condition
of matter, a demand from something wholly unintelli-
gent and incapable of justice. God has no law of injus-
tice, wrong proceeds from belief, and not Truth.
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To conclude quickly on the treatment of error, was
To conclude quickly on the treatment of error, was
the rule our Master left for casting it out. He never
recommended laws of health to our knowledge. On a
law that is not God's, we have a moral right to pass
judgment, and to commute its sentence; every in-
stance of matter, or the body, governing man, is justly