WE do not find it recorded in the New Testament that our Wayshower, Christ Jesus, ever employed a material remedy in the cure of the sick or sinning. He never divided his allegiance between Spirit and matter, good and evil. All his demonstrations of healing and reformation were based on his understanding of God as Love, Spirit, and of man as created in His image and likeness, spiritual, perfect, upright, whole, and free; in other words, of man as God's expression or reflection. Then, for man to reflect his creator it is necessary for him to express completeness, entireness, apart from any material sense of existence.
The statement that Jesus' healings were performed without any resort to material means may be challenged by the question, How can one account for the healing of the man born blind, whose eyes Jesus anointed with the clay? This inquiry is answered by Mary Baker Eddy in an article entitled "Spirit and Law" in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 258), where she says, "When, through Mind, he restored sight to the blind, he figuratively and literally spat upon matter; and, anointing the wounded spirit with the great truth that God is All, he demonstrated the healing power and supremacy of the law of Life and Love." This law of Life and Love is available to all; and when spiritually understood it can be applied in meeting mankind's needs under all circumstances and conditions.
As the man born blind obediently followed Jesus' command to wash, and came seeing, so down through the ages those who have sought the Christ, Truth, in their various needs, and have obediently followed the way pointed out by the Master, have received God's blessings. Through Jesus' work, the sick were healed, the lame walked, the dumb spake, and the dead were raised; and obedience to the Christ, Truth, will always deliver mankind from the thralldom of the enslaving senses, with their false sense of life in matter. "Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well," the prophet Isaiah represents God as saying; and then follow these illuminating words: "If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land."
