Article September 19, 2011 Issue

Christianly scientific prayer

By Allison Phinney

Spirit imparts the understanding which uplifts consciousness and leads into all truth. The Psalmist saith: “The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.” 

—Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 505

One of the fascinating things about accounts of Christian Science healing through prayer in earlier times is that often the person healed had so little communication with a Christian Science practitioner. A brief telegram or message by someone on horseback might have been the only contact.