AN English contemporary, the British Congregationalist, recently expressed this opinion: "We believe that if the church of Christ, in humble dependence upon its Lord, would resolve to keep step with him, the ancient miracles would be repeated."
Not only is every word of this statement true, but the wonder is that after nineteen hundred years of Christianity there should be such general obliviousness among the professed followers of the master Christian to the truth therein expressed, as to make it startling. It is the more remarkable because for more than forty years Christian Scientists have not only believed it possible to do the works which Jesus declared his followers should do, but they have demonstrated this in the proportion they have attained to the Mind which was in Christ Jesus and through which his mighty works of healing were wrought.
Jesus said of his ministry and of his works, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work;" but the mistake of the ages has been that the true meaning and value of these works were largely ignored because of the supposition that while they were lawful as wrought by Jesus, and through special dispensation by his immediate followers, they were neither lawful nor possible to later generations. Possibly this statement will be denied by many, but their denial will hardly bear analysis, for the reason that "actions speak louder than words," and the actions of most Christians have been consistent with the belief that Jesus in healing the sick and raising the dead defied and overrode the "will of the Father." This notwithstanding John's emphatic declaration: "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil," and Jesus' own words when he loosed "a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, to, these eighteen years," from her infirmity.
