Article July 15, 1972 Issue

Instantaneous Healing

SUZANNE MAYBERRY RIEDEL

One of the most elevating and sustaining experiences an individual can have in Christian Science is that of an instantaneous healing. It can lessen, even destroy, doubt or disbelief in God's tender, eternal care. Such a healing often becomes a landmark in the student's progress, supporting his understanding of Truth and his feeling of God's love for him.

The desire to attain the ability to heal instantaneously is probably universal among students of Christian Science. So the question asserts itself: "What must I do to heal instantaneously?"

In prefacing her explanation of what she understands to be the spiritual sense of the Lord's Prayer, Mary Baker Eddy answers the question in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "Only as we rise above all material sensuousness and sin, can we reach the heaven-born aspiration and spiritual consciousness, which is indicated in the Lord's Prayer and which instantaneously heals the sick." Science and Health, p. 16;

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