Recently, I received an e-mail from a man halfway around the world. Writing from somewhere in the Himalayas, he was requesting my immediate help through Christian Science treatment. He was suffering from severe diarrhea, so I needed to pray for him right away, which I did. Soon, he wrote back to say he was well again.
How does Christian Science treatment allow for a patient and practitioner to be on opposite sides of the globe while successfully meeting a serious need? Understanding the answer to this question enables us to better understand both how to heal and how to be healed.
In Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy explained why distance between healer and patient never poses an obstacle in healing spiritually: "Science can heal the sick, who are absent from their healers, as well as those present, since space is no obstacle to Mind. Immortal Mind heals what eye hath not seen; but the spiritual capacity to apprehend thought and to heal by the Truth-power, is won only as man is found, not in self-righteousness, but reflecting the divine nature" (p. 179).
