One who has experienced the joy of a pack trip to the higher mountain ranges knows what enchanting vistas are unfolded to the view. The grass, the flowers, the trees, the stars that one has known are there; but their loveliness is transmuted into a whole new world of beauty and majesty. There is a stillness in the higher ranges which is something more than absence of the noise and bustle of the world below. The quietude that waits on God is there.
A parallel may be drawn in the experience of one who has been healed in Christian Science of some bodily ill and goes on to unfold those qualities of Spirit, whose dawn in consciousness brought about the physical resuscitation. One's thought is illumined and one's experience is harmonized by the change in viewpoint through which such healing is accomplished. This harmony often satisfies the human sense, and one basks for a while in the new-found freedom which physical healing brings about.
But there comes a time when one is called upon to understand Mary Baker Eddy's meaning in her discussion of the question in "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 2), "Is healing the sick the whole of Science?" Her answer is precise and unequivocal. It begins with these statements: "Healing physical sickness is the smallest part of Christian Science. It is only the bugle-call to thought and action, in the higher range of infinite goodness. The emphatic purpose of Christian Science is the healing of sin."
