Article February 9, 1963 Issue

Why Grace Is Essential in Healing

ARNOLD H. EXO

"In order to become effective in healing, 'growth in grace'
must be expressed"

What is grace, and why is it so essential in healing? "The grace of God" is "the effect of God understood," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science says in "Christian Science versus Pantheism." She writes (p. 10): "Christian Scientists heal functional, organic, chronic, and acute diseases that M.D.'s have failed to heal; and, better still, they reform desperate cases of intemperance, tobacco using, and immorality, which, we regret to say, other religious teachers are unable to effect. All this is accomplished by the grace of God,—the effect of God understood."