The Cause of Christian Science restores Christian healing— healing through spiritual means alone. This Cause establishes on earth the kingdom of heaven, the reign of God—divine Principle, Truth, and Love. Really, these two activities are the same. For the sole means of bringing the reign of Truth and Love to light and attaining salvation is consistent practice of the divine Science which makes Christian healing possible—the healing of both sickness and sin.
How did the Cause of Christian Science begin? Would the unique gospel of Christian Science have attracted followers without proof of its truthfulness? Mrs. Eddy comments: "Had not my first demonstrations of Christian Science or metaphysical healing exceeded that of other methods, they would not have arrested public attention and started the great Cause that to-day commands the respect of our best thinkers. It was that I healed the deaf, the blind, the dumb, the lame, the last stages of consumption, pneumonia, etc., and restored the patients in from one to three interviews, that started the inquiry, What is it? And when the public sentiment would allow it, and I had overcome a difficult stage of the work, I would put patients into the hands of my students and retire from the comparative ease of healing to the next more difficult stage of action for our Cause."Message to The Mother Church for 1901, p. 17.
Among the steps Mrs. Eddy had to take in furthering her Cause was the founding of the organization that protects and disseminates the teachings of this dependable Science. That organization is The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs. Eddy entrusted this Church with the copyright and publication of her writings, that those great works may remain available to mankind in the wording and form that she was divinely led to give them. Thus the teachings of Christian Science retain their original, unchanging purity and power.
