Article February 10, 1992 Issue

Class instruction— a provision of compassion

"And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things."^{Mark 6:34.}

Mary Baker Eddy writes of a healing that took place sometime around 1869. The patient's physician, "who stood by her bedside, declared that she could not live. On seeing her immediately restored by me without material aid, he asked earnestly if I had a work describing my system of healing. When answered in the negative, he urged me immediately to write a book which should explain to the world my curative system of metaphysics."^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 105.}

Obviously, compassion moved the doctor to ask Mrs. Eddy, substantially, to teach her method of healing. She did write that book which would "explain to the world" her healing method. The book is Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and it is used, along with the Bible, in every classroom where Christian Science is taught today.

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