The Christianity of Jesus healed the sick. His command to every follower was to heal. Christian Science emphasizes this great fact. Mrs. Eddy calls attention to it on page 138 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" in saying, "Christians are under as direct orders now, as they were then [in Jesus' time], to be Christlike, to possess the Christ-spirit, to follow the Christ-example, and to heal the sick as well as the sinning."
That Christian Science is the Christianity of Jesus is demonstrated by its healing ministry. Wherever its literature is read, wherever its services are held, its lectures given, its teachings practiced, the signs of healing promised by the Master follow. Jesus' precepts or words may be said to constitute his doctrine, and his works the practice of it. In speaking of his words he said, "The word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me." He that sent him was most certainly God, of whom it was said of old, "He sent his word, and healed them." There was, therefore, nothing personal, nothing strained or strange about the healing ministry of Jesus. It was the inevitable result of his doctrine, the doctrine that proclaimed the truth of God—the infinitude of good and the consequent untruth of evil's claim to power of any kind over us; the availability to each and every one of us of the immediate and direct government of good, the kingdom of God at hand.
When this is understood, it becomes evident that Christian Scientists arrogate no special or peculiar power to themselves; that they do not look to any person or set of persons for the "signs following;" that indeed they truly recognize how "God is no respecter of persons." The more they practice genuine Christian Science the clearer do these facts become to them, and the more do they strive to make them plain to others; for only as these facts are recognized and one's practice is made to conform with them, does true Christian Science healing—the natural result of the reflection and impartation of divine Truth—take place. Thus does reliance upon persons and things cease, and pure religion, reliance upon God, the one and only beneficent power, is established.
