Article January 19, 1998 Issue

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Q Why not mix Christian Science with medical treatment?

A Christian Science treatment is based on the laws of God, demonstrating that all cause and effect are spiritual. Medicine primarily deals with matter as both cause and cure. To try to heal from such different standpoints would be unfair to the patient and counterproductive to healing.

Q Can Christian Science heal children who are too young to understand its teachings?

A Spiritual healing does not depend on age. Little children respond naturally to God's love and to the mental environment surrounding them. As parents pray, their thoughts are freed from fear and filled with a sense of God's loving care. Both parent and child are benefited. Infants and children are often healed more readily than adults.

Mary Baker Eddy founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, "... to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing."

Manual of The Mother Church
by Mary Baker Eddy

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