Article April 15, 1996 Issue

Reading Science and Health the first time

Judith Hardy Olson

"Metaphysical healing, or Christian Science, is a demand of the times," writes Mary Baker Eddy in her Miscellaneous Writings. "Every man and every woman would desire and demand it, if he and she knew its infinite value and firm basis" (p. 232).

Booklets about alternative methods of healing are increasingly common on magazine racks and at supermarket checkout counter. Articles on "natural" healing and studies reporting the efficacy of prayer appear with frequency in newspapers around the world. More and more books are being published on the subject. Conferences are held in which nonmedical healing is given serious attention. Each of these, in its own way, evidences humanity's search—demand—for metaphysical healing.

In this week's issue, spiritual thinkers and searchers talk about the satisfying of this demand. For each of them, reading Mary Baker Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures was an answer to prayer. It was the fount of healing, the desire fulfilled. It transformed their lives.

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