Article November 26, 1955 Issue

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE NURSE

NELL AMNA SHELTON

Christ Jesus founded his church on Christian healing. In the Preface of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. xi), "The physical healing of Christian Science results now, as in Jesus' time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their reality in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation." Later on the same page she tells us, "When God called the author to proclaim His Gospel to this age, there came also the charge to plant and water His vineyard."

One of the most vital points of Mrs. Eddy's work of planting and watering His vineyard was instruction regarding Christian Science healing. In establishing her Church and the movement of Christian Science for the purpose of healing sickness and saving from sin, Mrs. Eddy designated the work of Christian Scientists who are teachers, those who are practitioners, and those who serve as Christian Science nurses.

When the early Christian church was being established, Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians served a useful purpose with regard to the different types of activities necessary for the healing work of the church. He wrote: "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. ... For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ" (I Cor. 12:4–12).

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