A course in healing

Choices in healing methods abound. People seek relief in everything from A to Z—from acupressure to hatha yoga to macrobiotics to medical science to naturopathy to reflexology to Reiki to shamanism to zone therapy. Many of the world's healing methods are ancient, involve more than simple physical relief, and are handed down from teacher to pupil, formally or informally.

A recent Internet search by our staff on "Christian healing classes" brought up nearly 600 entries. Apparently, many people are interested in learning this method of healing.

Christian Science—which includes Christian healing and has been practiced for more than 125 years—bases its healing method on the spirituality practiced and taught by Jesus. Christian Science healing embraces physical cure, as it did in Jesus' time, but it also includes a great deal more than just physical relief—again, as it did with Jesus. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy offered the world, for the first time, an explanation of the phenomenon of Christian healing—of the how and the why of it. And in that book she had this to say about the significance of Christian Science healing in this age: "Now, as then, signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical healing of physical disease; but these signs are only to demonstrate its divine origin,—to attest the reality of the higher mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the world" (p. 150).

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