Primitive Christianity alive today

"Wherever primitive Christianity is lived, there is healing. Simple but profound healing. Healing after healing." That was my instant response when asked recently about my travels to remote mountainous areas of the Philippines, where I visited people who gather to practice Christian Science.

I found myself among people so eager to love each other, to heal as Jesus did, and to learn from Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. This made me think of what it must have been like in Jesus' time. These words of a hymn describe my feeling well: "Where'er he went affliction fled,/The sick were healed, the hungry fed" (James Montgomery, Christian Science Hymnal, No. 388).

Christian Science is quietly spreading in these mountains, as members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Baguio City, tell their families in the mountain areas of their healings and share the message of Science and Health in the people's own dialect. They've even formed a committee to translate bits from the weekly Christian Science Bible Lessons to share.

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