Isn’t it beautiful the way a
phrase can pull you up and make you think?
This happened when I came
across “treatment of medical diseases” (p. 59 of our book "A Century of Christian Science Healing") which appears in the long article Why I became a Christian Scientist by medical
doctor Edmund. F. Burton. The relevant section reads,
“For about fifteen months I studied the theory of Christian Science and
investigated its results. As I read and investigated I found it not difficult
to be convinced that it might do away with the use of drugs in the treatment of
medical diseases.”
So, a student of Christian
Science takes it a bit further to state that Christian Science takes away not
only the drug but the medical disease itself.
How many diseases are
medically invented?
Another “stop and think” passage is on page 70. The editor, in speaking of the quick healings
of earlier chapters (testimonies taken from the early Christian Science periodicals), says
that in later years there are even more healings recorded, “but they are part
of a widening spectrum of healing involving a greater variety of problems and
demands on Christian character.”
How this aspect has
increased by the year 2016, fifty years on from the writing of this book!
The Christian Science Monitor is informing us of those problems and
demands each day. And students are rising to the demands with their
prayers for the world.
I love Mrs. Eddy’s phrase,
“a wilderness of dullards.” “A small group of wise thinkers is better
than a wilderness of dullards and stronger than the might of empires” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany p. 162:7-9) Just so, we can appreciate the good effect of the prayers of those in touch with the Science of Christianity.
Joyce Voysey
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