Each one by earnest study may gain something from the healing works of Christ Jesus, as recorded in the Bible, to meet his special needs. Being all-embracing in scope, the healing works cannot be narrowly interpreted, but should be seen as the effect of the application of an understanding of infinite divine Love to meet the needs of mankind. Jesus was the Way-shower in right thinking and healing. And in the divine Science of his teachings discovered by Mary Baker Eddy, his faithful follower, we have the rules of metaphysical healing which, if obeyed, cannot fail of right results. We as Christian Scientists, who have named the name of Christ and touched the hem of the Christly robe of healing, should so reflect Love in our every thought and activity that healing naturally and necessarily follows.
Whenever consecrated work in Christian Science does not bring healing, there is a reason, and it behooves us to ascertain what is the obstruction delaying or preventing demonstration. It cannot be in the rules clearly set forth in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, for these rules, divinely revealed, must be and are demonstrable. Perhaps we are not correctly applying Christian Science or thinking rightly.
One phase of wrong thinking may here be considered, that of condemnation either of oneself or of another. It is usually accompanied by self-pity; and self-love unknowingly fosters self-condemnation. Self-love, like self-condemnation, accepts the mistaken sense of selfhood. Self-will often poses under self-justification, and when that, too, proves but a broken reed which does not support, it turns to another extreme—self-pity. These phases of belief in a selfhood apart from God are destroyed as one gains the true concept of man.
