SPIRITUAL HEALING

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 68, 14 December 1931, Page 6

SPIRITUAL HEALING

Christian Science Lecture “None can gainsay that ill health has been one of the most grievous burdens mortals have had to bear, and from the earliest history, to find relief from this encumbrance has occupied the earnest attention of untold thousands,” said Dr. A. Gilmore, of Boston, U.S.A., in an address in the Wellington Town Hall yes-terday-afternoon, under the auspices of the First Chureh of Christ, Scientist. The situation was not hopeless, the lecturer said. A way had been revealed whereby sickness might be healed. An effectual remedy had been discovered whereby mankind might be set free from suffering and society relieved of the tremendous burden which it had so long and so patiently borne. . "With the discovery of Christian Science, sixty-five yedrs ago, the method of spiritual healing practiced so successfully by Christ Jesus was restored, later was elucidated by Mrs. Eddy, and is today demonstrating the presence of God anil the power of His Christ to destroy every type of discord, every form of error, every phase of disease, misery, want, unhappiness, which restricts and harasses human experience,” said Dr. Gilmore. “A Christian Science practitioner does not attempt primarily to heal a sick body. Sick thoughts alone are to be healed by changing belief in sickness to sense ot health; belief in error to a better belief, falsity for truth. Belief in sickness is changed to a sense of health when it is learned that man, the real man, God’s likeness, is both spiritual and perfect, now and forever. Is this so difficult? Why should this be more difficult of accomplishment than the supplanting of any falsity with truth? You may say. Because sickness is so personal, seems so real.’ Yes! It seems real because we hold to a false sense of man. 'ls man flesh and blood, a mortal? Or is man the son of God, His perfect likeness, wholly spiritual? , “Our necessity is to lay hold of the fundamental fact of man’s present and eternal .perfection, never yielding to the temptation to believe in man as matter.”