Reliance upon prayer for healing is difficult for many people to accept. And even though the number of people who have been healed through prayer in Christian Science over the past one hundred and twenty-two years must now be in the millions, as much controversy surrounds this phenomenon today as it did in the early Christian Church. Nevertheless, even while the debate continues and has been brought into courts and legislative bodies in the United States, the evidence of spiritual healing mounts.
It may be helpful for students of Christian Science as well as interested onlookers to reconsider just what Christian Scientists have come to discover. In talking with Christian Scientists and reading through thousands of written accounts of healing that have accumulated during this century, several common factors stand out.
Spiritual sense becomes so
strong that the reality of God
is no longer a mystical or
solely subjective experience
but is tangible and verifiable.
Nevertheless, this transcendence does not isolate one
from everyday, ordinary life.
