ago, though practised in other countries at an
earlier date. "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and
that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing
under the sun."

The condition which Jesus of Nazareth, on various occasions during the
three years of his ministry on earth, declared to be essential, in the mind
of both healer and patient, is contained in the one word--_faith_. Can
drugs suddenly cure leprosy? When the ten lepers were cleansed and one
returned to give thanks in Oriental phrase, Jesus said to him: "Arise, go
thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole." That was Christian Science. In
his "Law of Psychic Phenomena" Hudson says: "That word, more than any
other, expresses the whole law of human felicity and power in this world,
and of salvation in the world to come. It is that attribute of mind which
elevates man above the level of the brute, and gives dominion over the
physical world. It is the essential element of success in every field of
human endeavor. It constitutes the power of the human soul. When Jesus of
Nazareth proclaimed its potency from the hilltops of Palestine, he gave to
mankind the key to health and heaven, and earned the title of Saviour of
the World." Whittier, grandest of mystic poets, saw the truth:--

That healing gift he lends to them
Who use it in his name;
The power that filled his garment's hem
Is evermore the same.

Again, in a poem entitled "The Master," he wrote:--

The healing of his seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain;
We touch him in life's throng and press,
And we are whole again.[D]

That Jesus operated in perfect harmony with natural law, not in defiance,
suppression, or violation of it, we cannot doubt. The perfectly natural is
the perfectly spiritual. Jesus enunciated and exemplified the Principle;
and, obviously, the conditions requisite in psychic healing to-day are the
same as were necessary in apostolic times. We accept the statement of
Hudson: "There was no law of nature violated or transcended. On the
contrary, the whole transaction was in perfect obedience to the laws of
nature. He understood the law perfectly, as no one before him understood
it; and in the plenitude of his power he applied it where the greatest good
could be accomplished." A careful reading of the accounts of his healings,
in the light of modern science, shows that he observed, in his practice of
mental ther