Article November 9, 1974 Issue

Rock-based Thinking Heals

JEANETTE BARBARA HOWES

One summer evening a young girl heard an evangelical group singing outdoors. The hymn they were singing emphasized building on the ever-standing Rock. The words brought the girl a vague sense of security in God. This comforting though uncertain feeling stayed with her until a few years later when she became a student of Christian Science.

Soon she realized that through this study she was gaining a much clearer idea of the perfect nature of God and the real, spiritual man. Also, this understanding gave her a more positive awareness of God's presence and power in her daily life. Her previous unsubstantial sense of security, based on belief in an almost unknown God, was replaced with confidence. Truth, the Rock, or Christ, was to become the basis of her thought in progressing spiritually and in healing discords of various kinds for herself and others.

The true idea of the Rock unfolds to us through the teachings of Christian Science. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy explains: "The Christ is incorporeal, spiritual,—yea, the divine image and likeness, dispelling the illusions of the senses; the Way, the Truth, and the Life, healing the sick and casting out evils, destroying sin, disease, and death. As Paul says: 'There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.' The corporeal man Jesus was human." And in the next paragraph she writes, "Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved that Christ is the divine idea of God—the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing the divine Principle, Love, and leading into all truth." Science and Health, p. 332; .

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