To
those uninstructed in Christian Science the healing of physical disease by spiritual power may seem to be a matter of mystery and miracle, the supernatural act of an inscrutable God.
In
that spiritually inspired exegesis of the book of Genesis to be found in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy gives us many arresting and enlightening statements of truth.
What
student of Christian Science has not been confronted, again and again, with the discouraging suggestion that his efforts to practice Christian healing are not of the highest order, and that he is not giving good Christian Science treatments! To discover the whys and wherefores of his difficulties, he is apt to neglect the two sources of light to which he should turn instantly, namely, the Bible and the works of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy.
Now
and then one comes across a person who acknowledges openly that he is a student of Christian Science, that he turns to it for healing and systematically reads and studies the literature; but he avers that he has not felt an urge to unite either with The Mother Church or with one of its branches.
The
thought that each individual has but one relative and that one perfectly satisfactory in every respect and under all circumstances would seem to most mortals too good to be true.
When
Paul in one of his inimitable letters urged the little band of Christians at Colosse to set their "affections on things above, not on things on the earth".
