Skeptical?

It's fashionable these days to be skeptical about a lot things, Christianity included.

Mrs. Eddy, at the sharp end of skepticism herself, points a wry lesson on page 43 of her book No and Yes. Here she relates an incident in which a "distinguished clergyman", suffering from "nervous prostration", had come to be healed. He reported having to keep to a certain diet in order to continue with his work.

She writes: "Here a skeptic might well ask if the atonement had lost its efficacy for him, and if Christ's power to heal was not equal to the power of daily meat and drink. The power of Truth is not contingent on matter."

What follows is a collection of reports of the benefits attested to by readers of her book Science and Health.

Julie Swannell