Editorial March 18, 1985 Issue

Some thoughts about Christian Science treatment

ALLISON W. PHINNEY

Anyone who has spent much time praying soon concludes that prayer is more an attitude than a particular formulation of words. We are at peace with our prayers—that is, we feel we've truly become prayerful—when we are released from the all-too-usual mental involvement with a small human self and its circumstances and we come into the comforting recognition of the actual presence of God with us.

Christian Scientists refer to the specific prayer that heals sickness and sin as "treatment." Like other forms of prayer, treatment has the goal of opening up thought to take in the great meaning of God's being good and being everywhere. It assuredly is not something we busily do for ourselves without God, while God's power waits to come to bear at the end of the process. So, effective treatment is not just reasoning about God but as much as possible responding to His immediate presence.

Probably most people would agree the only logical standpoint regarding God is that He is already all He should be and He has made man and creation with the greatest of spiritual beauty, wholeness, and perfection. Christian Science treatment starts from that position.

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