Recently I reread an account of a woman who was healed by Mary Baker Eddy through prayer.See Mary Baker Eddy, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 105, and The Christian Science Journal, May 1995, p. 18. The woman's doctor saw Mrs. Eddy come into the room, speak a few words to his patient, who was dying from pneumonia, and the woman was healed.
What touched me was the conversation between Mrs. Eddy (then Mrs. Glover) and the doctor. Here was a deeply religious seeker in the almost forgotten realm of apostolic healing, and a respected physician—both dedicated to relieving human suffering. The physician didn't waste time defending professional turf. And apparently to him this healing wasn't a miracle but something that involved a method that, if understood, would help other healers, because he asked, "How did you do it, what did you do?" When Mrs. Eddy replied by giving God full credit, he said: "Why don't you write it in a book, publish it, and give it to the world?"
At that time Mrs. Eddy was already writing down what she was discovering as she researched the Bible and proved her findings by healing others. A few years later, in 1875, she published those writings in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. She felt God had impelled her to give this book to the world.
