A Christian Scientist
had been invited, along with several other nature lovers, to watch the opening of a night-blooming cereus in the garden of a friend.
Under
the marginal heading "Skilful surgery" in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy makes known the right course to pursue in regard to the handling of surgical problems in Christian Science practice.
"The
relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible in Science; and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history.
The
student of Christian Science turns for guidance to his textbooks, the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, whenever he is confronted by any situation which seems to need a solution.
