Article February 10, 1973 Issue

What Is Healing All About?

JANE EULAH SCHWEITZER

While paying for my groceries at a supermarket one day, I was grateful to be able to attest to a physical healing. This was the way the conversation went between the grocery clerk and me at the check-out counter:

Clerk: What have you been doing lately?
Jane: (Smiling and noncommittal) Oh, quite a few things!
Clerk: Have you had an operation?
Jane: No, a Christian Science healing!
Clerk: Oh! Weren't you that poor lady with the large growth on your neck?
Jane: (Not thinking of myself as "that poor lady") Yes.
Clerk: How can you have so much faith! How did you do it?
Jane: By praying and studying the Bible, and Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy.
Clerk: How long had you had that growth?
Jane: About thirteen years.
Clerk: Oh, then it's just a matter of time?
Jane: Oh no! The healing should have taken place years ago.
Clerk: Then why didn't it?
Jane: Perhaps because I was lazy. Or maybe I'm a slow learner. But I am so grateful for the healing.
Clerk: So am I! Congratulations!

"How did you do it?" the clerk had asked. What does one do in Christian Science to bring about a healing? For one thing, he tries to follow Christ Jesus' example. A study of the four Gospels reveals the Master's constant ability to heal—to transform individuals from an expression of sin or of sickness or of death to that of sinlessness, of health, and of an active life. In following Christ Jesus' example, one finds certain statements of Mrs. Eddy's especially useful. For instance: "It is no more Christianly scientific to see disease than it is to experience it." ^{Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.421;}

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