There are few quarters of the globe to-day where the news has not penetrated that Christian Science heals the sick. Mention is constantly being made of the fact all over the civilized world; and people are not nearly so skeptical as they once were, when told that some one they may have known has been healed of, perhaps, a long-standing sickness, through the agency of Christian Science.
It will be remembered that the Founder of Christianity, Jesus the Christ, constantly proved the veracity of his doctrines by healing disease, or by some other demonstration of the power of Spirit over matter. He cleansed the lepers, restored the withered hand, made supple the paralyzed limbs, gave back the sight to blind eyes. He calmed the stormtossed sea and walked upon its surface fed the multitude from the meager store of a few loaves and fishes, raised the dead, and ultimately vanquished, in his own case, the false belief that Life could be destroyed, refusing to submit to the fallacy that death is real. All of these wonderful deeds witnessed to his understanding of spiritual law.
That Jesus desired his works to testify to the truth of his mission is clearly indicated in the incident which occurred between the Galilean Prophet and the disciples of John the Baptist. John, while lying in prison, had become disheartened, even to the extent of doubting whether Christ Jesus was indeed the Messiah. Wishing to reassure himself on the point, he, through two of his disciples, addressed to the Master the question, "Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?" The answer which Jesus returned lacked nothing in directness. "Go and shew John again," he said, "those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them." Christ Jesus knew that John would draw the correct inference for himself from the deeds which had been performed.
