THAT Christian Science is an efficient method of healing disease can no longer be disputed. The proofs thereof are too evident and too numerous for successful refutation. Happily, the more general attitude of honest human thought today is that of desire to learn how the healing is accomplished; but in the attempt to make the discovery for themselves, many go very wide of the mark and wander off in devious ways of mortal speculation.
In the days of the first Christian demonstration of the power of divine Mind to heal, people tried to account for the wonderful results wrought by the Master, and offered many kinds of explanation. These embraced every belief from demonology to the arbitrary intervention of God; from the accusation that Jesus was an emissary of Beelzebub, the prince of devils, to the superstitious worship of his personality as God in human form. So today there are many arguments offered to explain away the wonderful results of Christian Science treatment, and they range all the way from the claim of a mistaken medical diagnosis, or a mere freak of the imagination, to the most subtle metaphysical theories based on the supposed influence of one human mind over another.
There were in ancient times, however, just as there are now, those honest and earnest enough to go to the right source to learn the truth. Nicodemus, we are told, came to Jesus to discover, from a human standpoint apparently, what was the method by which he accomplished his works. Jesus at once brought him to an abrupt halt by showing him that he must abandon absolutely all human concepts and adopt the spiritual only. "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God," were his words, and although Nicodemus was a teacher in Israel, Jesus' theology was too profound for his immediate comprehension.
