FOR many centuries instantaneous healings, so-called miracles, and blessings of every description have on occasions resulted from the reading of the Scriptures and from prayer. The recipients, evidently satisfied with being healed or blessed, would then return to their material routine. This was not so of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.
Following her healing through reading Holy Writ, Mrs. Eddy continued to search the Scriptures, and divine intelligence illumined her way. She tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 109), "I knew the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God, and that cures were produced in primitive Christian healing by holy, uplifting faith; but I must know the Science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration."
The keynote of this article is contained in our Leader's statement, "I must know the Science of this healing." For centuries, sincere students of the Bible had wanted to follow in Christ Jesus' footsteps: to heal and to be healed. They did have faith; they loved much and were unselfish, but —and this point is most important—they were not guided by spiritual sense, or divine intelligence. The evidence of material sense was too real to them.
