IN our Christian Science periodicals and in the Wednesday meetings in our churches many testimonies of gratitude for physical healings accomplished through the application of Christian Science are .given. The writer has experienced such healings. But in actual fact Christian Science does not heal matter. Rather does it replace mortal mind with the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 2:5), and this results in mental, moral, and physical healings.
To understand the reality of being, namely, man's oneness with God. sometimes seems difficult. Jesus taught this great verity. He demonstrated it by healing both sin and sickness; yet, as Mary Baker Eddy points out in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 350), "The Master often refused to explain his words, because it was difficult in a material age to apprehend spiritual Truth." Even his disciples had difficulty in understanding his teaching and following in his footsteps, but they persisted until they too were able to understand and demonstrate in a measure as he did.
We of this age are doubly blessed, for in the solution of our daily problems we have two invaluable aids to help us discern the truth about God, man, and the universe. These are the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health. We learn from these two books that any problem in human experience is sure of solution when we gain and maintain the correct concept of God and of man as His expression. In the proportion that we understand spiritual reality and listen for God's guidance will blessings appear in our experience, not only in the form of physical healing but in the unfoldment of proper occupation, adequate supply, right companionship, and other human necessities. We must hold fast to the truth of being through daily prayer and faithful study of our textbooks, lest we be deceived by the false suggestions of mortal mind.
