Article December 19, 1983 Issue

Reaching the high goal of Christian healing

SHARON SLATON HOWELL

The Science Christ Jesus employed still heals and saves mankind. This means that students of Christian Science have the duty and privilege of proving its healing power.

Many are proving it, through clear-cut healings for themselves and others. Nevertheless, there isn't a true disciple of Christ Jesus—whether long established in the public practice of Christian Science or newly awakened to the need to carry out the Master's commands—who doesn't aspire to a higher demonstration of God's allness. The world longs to see the "signs following."

Spiritual altitude is the great need—spiritual clarity and purity of thought. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in Science and Health, "Mortals must gravitate Godward, their affections and aims grow spiritual,—they must near the broader interpretations of being, and gain some proper sense of the infinite,—in order that sin and mortality may be put off."^{Science and Health, p. 265.}