Coparceners? It looks like a misprint, but it is a legal term perhaps little used anywhere today. It does, however, encapsulate in a single word much of the relationship between Christian Science practitioners and their patients, for the meaning of "coparcener" is "a joint heir in an estate."
No healing practice, except the original Christian healing practice Christ Jesus taught and exemplified, has the same approach to the sick as that of Christian Science practitioners to those who seek their help. The more general thought would be "Here is someone whose body is sick. I will see what I can do to cure it." The object would be to restore the individual to his normal state of bodily health. But what was the approach of the greatest scientific healer of all time—our unparalleled Exemplar, Jesus?
Many came to Jesus for healing and were healed. Was he simply healing bodies? The answer is clearly stated in his reply to the people who were looking for him on one particular occasion. It would seem that he read their thought and wanted to turn it to higher things than better health or well-fed bodies, however important these may be. He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life."John 6:26, 27.
