Concerning Healing in Christian Science

        (Just came across the following statements as I was reading from Prose Works by Mary Baker Eddy, and I thought they might be informative for those of my readers who are not acquainted with Christian Science and why it is we rely on God for healing.)


        "Those who laugh at or pray against transcendentalism and the Christian Scientist's religion or his medicine, should know the danger of questioning Christ Jesus' healing, who administered no remedy apart from Mind, and taught his disciples none other."

       "If God created drugs for medical use, Jesus and his disciples would have used them and named them for that purpose, for he came to do 'the will of the Father.'"

        "Christians and clergymen pray for sinners; they believe that God answers their prayers, and that prayer is a divinely appointed means of grace and salvation.  They believe that divine power, besought, is given to them in times of trouble, and that He worketh with them to save sinners.  I love this doctrine, for I know that prayer brings the seeker into closer proximity with divine Love, and thus he finds what he seeks, the power of God to heal and to save."

(From Message to The Mother Church - 1901)