Christian Science practitioners are people who devote their time to helping others find healing through prayer. A list of these individuals, who are available to the public in countries throughout the world, can be found in the back of this magazine. Below, one woman shares her thoughts on the value of asking a practitioner for prayer-based treatment.
I've had a lot of healings through my study of Christian Science, and many of them have been quick. Others have taken longer. Sometimes I've called a Christian Science practitioner to pray with me; on other occasions, I've handled the situation by myself. But I've found that when I've prayed for a while and still haven't been healed, I probably need to ask someone for help. So why do I sometimes hesitate?
Mary Baker Eddy addressed this issue in Science and Health. "If students do not readily heal themselves," she wrote, "they should early call an experienced Christian Scientist to aid them. If they are unwilling to do this for themselves, they need only to know that error cannot produce this unnatural reluctance." Science and Health, p. 420.
