Our compassion for people who need help is sometimes so great we feel we would do anything for them. We are willing to sit up all night if necessary, to take endless trouble cooking appetizing meals, running errands, and performing all kinds of personal services.
But if those friends are under medical care and we are Christian Scientists, we sometimes feel diffident about offering them instead the spiritual help we consider natural for ourselves. In other cases we may be reluctant to suggest that we pray for our friends—give them Christian Science treatment—or get a Christian Science practitioner to do so, lest the proposal should be unwelcome.
We may even hesitate to offer them the Christian Science textbook to read so that they can find out how they can help themselves. Many people have been healed simply by reading this textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. Does it not seem strange that we should be so reluctant to offer the healing truths it sets forth as an alternative to medical care, although we may have had proof after proof in our lives of their effectiveness in healing disease?
