Article November 2, 1987 Issue

What would you do if...?

The Christian Science Monitor

Christian Scientists generally rely on God in order to stay well and to heal not only physical and mental illnesses but every kind of challenge to peace and progress. They feel that anything which would disrupt the harmony of God's creation has a solution in prayer, as Christ Jesus' healing works showed.

When the subject is physical healing, people sometimes want to know what the Christian Scientist would do if there were a serious problem that appeared to require an immediate remedy.

This is a legitimate question. When faced with a condition considered "critical," though, are we really helpless without some form of immediate material treatment? People often consider that prayer is something you can resort to in addition to medical means, if you're religiously inclined, but that it isn't in the most essential way really doing something effective.

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