Article July 11, 1953 Issue

PRESENT OR ABSENT TREATMENT

HERBERT BUCHER

A Practitioner of Christian Science was asked by a friend newly interested in Science, "Which is more efficacious, present or absent treatment?" The friend was assured that Christian Scientists know from experience that both are equally effective.

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy says (p. 179), "Science can heal the sick, who are absent from their healers, as well as those present, since space is no obstacle to Mind." It must be clear, then, that the distinction made by Christian Scientists between what they term absent and present treatments simply indicates either the absence or the presence of the patient, not of the treatment itself; nor does it indicate the place from which it is given.

It is worthy of note that nowhere in her writings does our revered Leader use the term absent treatment or present treatment. In the true scientific sense, treatment is always present, for the healing Christ is everywhere and heals irrespective of the mortal belief in place, space, or time. There is no absence of Mind or of Mind-power. A Christian Science treatment declares the eternal, spiritual perfectness of man in the image and likeness of God.

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