Article December 26, 1953 Issue

Love's divine adventure

Harriet Patchin Botham

When an individual suffering from disease or sin accepts the healing ministry of a Christian Science treatment, he has embarked upon a glorious adventure. In 1866 Mary Baker Eddy sustained an injury pronounced fatal by her physician. She turned to the Bible for comfort in this extremity and read the account of Jesus healing a man of palsy (Matt. 9:2-8). This awakened her to the spurious nature of any material sense testimony. The true sense that being exists in God, Mind, became clearly evident to her in that healing and so illumined her consciousness that she was instantly restored to health.

At that moment Mrs. Eddy stood at the threshold of a new adventure—the discovery of Christian Science—the realization that the sick and sinning could be healed by spiritual means alone, the means Christ Jesus employed. Mrs. Eddy founded Christian Science on Bible teachings. In “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” and her other writings we find the Science of Mind-healing, the solution for all mankind’s ills, including poverty, fear, loneliness, despondency.

In her study of Christian Science one mother found healing from despondency when she perceived the truth of Mrs. Eddy’s words (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 158): “We live in an age of Love’s divine adventure to be All-in-all.” Upon the marriage of her daughter, her only child, this mother felt that her usefulness had come to an end; she thought of all the good times they had had together, the companionship they had enjoyed, and feared that now she would be deprived of all of it. She felt that the future held very little of interest for her. As a result, she became ill.

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