Editorial January 27, 1992 Issue

A Church that is joined together in healing purpose

Ann Kenrick

A television program told the fascinating story of the first survey of Everest, the highest mountain in the world. Standing over twenty-nine thousand feet high, this mountain in the Himalayan range was named after Sir George Everest, the surveyor general of India. He had mapped its peaks in the 1850s.

Just over one hundred years later, on May 29, 1953, the world was cheering the news of the conquest of Everest. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing, a Sherpa guide, were the first two people to stand on the highest peak in the world. Hillary stressed that the ascent had only been made possible by a mighty team effort. One could see this in the film clips that showed the climbers painstakingly cutting their way through the ice as they made footholds up through the glaciers, where there were drops of thousands of feet on either side. These pictures pointed out the sheer necessity of sticking together—in this case being literally roped together—and of following with great precision in the footsteps of the leader of the expedition.

Around the same time that Everest was named after the famous surveyor, on the other side of the world, another intrepid pioneer, Mary Baker Eddy, was mapping new paths in the field of religion. She called her discovery Christian Science. Her breakthrough in the practice of Christian healing convinced her that the healing which Christ Jesus practiced could still be demonstrated because it was profoundly scientific—based on divine law. Mrs. Eddy founded her Church in 1879 for the purpose of reinstating such Christian healing. Actual healing of sickness and disease authenticated the Science of Christianity as it had done in Jesus' time.

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