With what comfort do all the miracles of the Bible, both in the Old and in the New Testament, come to us at this time! A thoughtful survey of them reveals practically every type of mortal discord overcome, and in each is the vital fact demonstrated of the supremacy of good over evil. As we study and restudy them in the light of Christian Science, a new breath from heaven fans these familiar narratives into living messages of truth to meet the problems in the world today. After recounting in the eleventh chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews a long list of marvelous instances of divine help, the writer concludes with this admonition: "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us."
These words will find an echo in the heart of every Christian Scientist, for are not we compassed about with an even greater cloud of witnesses than that of which the writer of the Hebrew epistle spoke? As the result of understanding something of the teachings of Christian Science, we have demonstrated its healing efficacy in our own lives. At every Wednesday evening testimony meeting we hear others testifying to its healing power, and this is happening all over the world, wherever these meetings are held. The periodicals tell us of healings, and in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and Mrs. Eddy's other writings we read of many more. The last hundred pages of the textbook are devoted to accounts of healings which occurred through reading this book. In "Historical and Biographical Papers," by Judge Clifford P. Smith, there are two chapters devoted to our Leader's healings, and they are wonderfully inspiring. Without any doubt, primitive Christian healing, as taught and exemplified by Christ Jesus, has come again to human consciousness through the labors of Mrs. Eddy, whom her followers love and acknowledge as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and Leader of the Christian Science movement.
Relating to her discovery, Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 109:) "For three years after my discovery, I sought the solution of this problem of Mind-healing, searched the Scriptures and read little else, kept aloof from society, and devoted time and energies to discovering a positive rule." And farther on in the same paragraph she says, "I knew the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God, and that cures were produced in primitive Christian healing by holy, uplifting faith; but I must know the Science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration." Humanity is rising up and calling her blessed for her unselfish labor in discovering and giving to the world the facts, or Science, on which all miracles are based. Thus the light of her great discovery shines upon the loved stories of the Bible, revealing the miracles as results not of extraordinary supernatural intervention on the part of God on certain occasions, but of divine law, which is always operating in human affairs.
