A Christian Scientist
relating an experience of her youth at a time when she evidenced strong faith in the power and availability of good told of being healed in one Christian Science treatment of what had been diagnosed as a severe case of blood poisoning.
Throughout
all ages mankind has sought power: power for the individual and power for nations; power to overcome disease and find an all-time panacea that would bring lasting harmony to the body; power for light, for speed, for energy; power, in fact, to overcome the confines of a material world with its frailties of flesh and its limits of time and space.
When
Christ Jesus summoned three of his followers to accompany him in the garden of Gethsemane on the night before his crucifixion, he gave them a simple but important command.
One
who was investigating the possibilities of a healing through prayer once attended a Christian Science lecture and was deeply impressed with this recommendation of the lecturer: "Let only good be paraded and detailed.