VERY significant is the way in which Jesus healed the blind man of Bethsaida. The Scripture records that the Master "took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town." Christian Science teaches that the saving hand of the Christ, Truth, is held out to all who are ready to be led away from the blindness of materiality to the recognition of man's spiritual being.
The town, Bethsaida, was one of the places which were rebuked by the Master for not understanding the significance of the "mighty works" done there. Perhaps it may serve to typify the worldliness of material sense, the false belief that matter holds the issues of life, health, and happiness.
If so, the journey of the blind man out of the town is typical of the journey of the seeker for Truth who is guided, by Christian Science, away from the false material sense of existence to the spiritual understanding of what life really is. As the Master sent the blind man healed to his own house and bade him abide there and not return to the town, so Christian Science returns the sufferer to his own "house," the consciousness of his true being, bids him abide there and return no more to his former false beliefs.
