A recent series in The Christian Science Monitor, "Christian Healing Today,"Monitor, December 22-24, 29, 30, 1987. highlighted the reawakening of an interest in Christian healing among churches of many denominations and pointed out the challenges they face in finding a way to be faithful to Christ Jesus' command to heal the sick. This series tells of people's growing hunger for spiritual reality in their lives. They are apparently looking more seriously now for an anchor in a world where famine, pollution, disease, and war are so widely known to be daily tragedies.
Mary Baker Eddy observed over a hundred years ago: "In different ages the divine idea assumes different forms, according to humanity's needs. In this age it assumes, more intelligently than ever before, the form of Christian healing. This is the babe we are to cherish. This is the babe that twines its loving arms about the neck of omnipotence, and calls forth infinite care from His loving heart."Miscellaneous Writings, p. 370.
We all know how much attention, affection, and nurturing care a baby needs, and out of our love for a child grow a deep commitment and responsibility as we give ourselves unselfishly to the work involved. We each, as practicing Christian Scientists, have the obligation to cherish, nourish, and promote the growth within our own hearts of this babe of Christian healing that is so greatly needed by the world.
