Do we sometimes wonder why Mrs. Eddy's early students had such remarkable results in their healing work? Are we even tempted to think that good healing work is not going on today, when thousands of grateful people testify to the contrary? True, the early workers had Mrs. Eddy's own teaching. But we have this too in Science and Health, the textbook in which she clearly sets forth the healing truth revealed to her in the Bible.
If we feel results are somewhat lacking from our work, it could be that we need to be more thorough in our study and practice. That Mrs. Eddy was extraordinarily thorough in all she did is evident from biographies of her life. We learn of her painstaking revisions of Science and Health, as well as the infinite care she took with the founding of her Church and the Christian Science movement. In her teaching and counsel she impressed upon her pupils the need for thoroughness in their healing work. She told them, "Christian Science destroys material beliefs through the understanding of Spirit, and the thoroughness of this work determines health."Science and Health, p. 186;
It is not stretching matters to say that the idea of thoroughness is given Biblical authority in the first chapter of Genesis, the spiritual account of creation. This creation, as Christian Science explains, is the complete unfoldment, or revelation, of the spiritual truth of all being, of that which has always been and always will be.
