Not to a select number, but to all

Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer (Amplified Edition) consists of the following:

• Preface
• Part One - A Lifetime of Healing (18 chapters plus an Interlude titled "Advice for healers"
• Part Two - More Healing Works by Mary Baker Eddy  
• Appendix A - More Advice for Healers
• Appendix B - Biographical Glossary, Notes, Index

It is a very comprehensive book. 

Last night I flipped to Appendix A and read Eddy's 1888 letter to her student Edward Kimball. Kimball seems to have been experiencing stomach trouble and had turned to his Christian Science teacher for help. She cuts to the chase. She reminds him of those qualities which had obviously impressed her when he was her class student: "great, grand, noble, frank" (p. 392). She reminds him that he is working for God, who "knows that [he] is able to do all the good that [he] is required to do" (ibid). 

The next paragraphs are taken from Eddy's 1889 message of the Christian Scientist Association. Here she includes a rebuke to the idea that we "haven't time" (ibid 394) for needed attention to a need. This suggestion must be met with the fact that we do have time!

She knew that her "experience of the effects of faith was no miracle and nothing impossible to all who have that faith which is followed by spiritual understanding and is equal to avail itself of Christ's promise, not to a select number, but to all who exercise it." (written by Mary Baker Eddy in 1900. See page 11).

Isa 55: 1 "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters..." King James Version

"Say there! Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink..." The Living Bible 

It's not a closed shop. This teaching is for everyone.

Julie Swannell