As the avowed followers of Mrs. Eddy, Christian Scientists are trained to look beyond the modes of healing taught by material systems. Christ Jesus averred, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work."John 5:17; He thereby characterized the purpose of his healing works as bearing witness to God's ever-presence and all-power. Christian Scientists are taught to follow the Master's purpose and example in healing sin and sickness.
Bearing witness to God's omnipotence and omnipresence, therefore, must be our uppermost motive and goal in Christian Science healing, as it was in the Master's. In practicing in accordance with his method we must not believe the ordinary material teachings that pain and discord are produced by a power called disease, supposed to exist in a substance called matter, something opposed to Spirit and something over which we have no control.
To the degree that such a theory is believed by the Christian Scientist, he is diverted from the point at which the suffering is produced, the point of belief in a power apart from God, good, and in an evil called disease. Such a belief prevents the believer from knowing how to govern his own body, as the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, shows: "The belief, that the unconscious substratum of mortal mind, termed the body, suffers and reports disease independently of this so-called conscious mind, is the error which prevents mortals from knowing how to govern their bodies."Science and Health, p. 409;
