Mary Baker Eddy, the author of Science and Health, didn't invent Christian Science. She discovered it. She discovered the operative laws of God, which Jesus utilized in his spectacular healing work. And after she diligently searched and researched these laws and proved them herself, she explained them in Science and Health. She didn't do this for personal or denominational advantage but to bring relief to mankind through the understanding of Truth's power over error. She said that her purpose in founding the Church of Christ, Scientist, was "to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing." Manual of The Mother Church, p. 17.
In a world that today is reaching out for spiritual values and meanings, where the new frontier appears to be immaterialism, it is heartening that the lost element of healing, so conspicuous in primitive Christianity, has been found; that the true Science, true theology, true medicine that Christ Jesus relied on are available here and now to be practiced and demonstrated. And that reliance, of course, could be only radical reliance, with its consequence of healing. Reliance that isn't radical ceases to be reliance.
The Biblical accounts of healing reveal that healing was accomplished by spiritual means rather than by material methods. Anyone who accepts the Bible must acknowledge the fact of spiritual healing because of the numerous instances of such cures found in its pages, especially in the four Gospels. These accounts are explicit in illustrating the expediency and appropriateness of looking to God, Spirit, not to matter, for true healing. Mrs. Eddy states, "The unerring and fixed Principle of all healing is God ...." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 232.
