Article April 11, 2005 Issue

The medicine of Mind—a 'gentle rain from heaven'

By Tom Black

"Which was first, Mind or medicine? If Mind was first and self-existent, then Mind, not matter, must have been the first medicine. God being All-in-all, He made medicine; but that medicine was Mind. It could not have been matter, which departs from the nature and character of Mind, God. Truth is God's remedy for error of every kind, and Truth destroys only what is untrue. Hence the fact that, to-day, as yesterday, Christ casts out evils and heals the sick."

—Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 142–143

By the time this article is printed, the snow that has blanketed our city today will certainly have melted. Like rain, it touches every exposed surface. Rain is connected to the quality of mercy in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, in which a woman named Portia says, "The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath."

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