Being healed was probably the furthest thing from his mind. The manager was accustomed to talking with the distinguished woman, a regular customer of his telegraph office who often stopped during her daily carriage ride through Concord, New Hampshire, to send messages in those days before fax machines and e-mail. But on this particular afternoon, when she asked how he was feeling, he happened to mention a chronic stomach condition that had been troubling him. After their conversation, Henry Morrison realized that the symptoms had disappeared. And he never had trouble with that condition again.Yvonne Caché von Fettweis and Robert Townsend Warneck, Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer (Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1998), p. 151.
This wasn’t the only time that Mary Baker Eddy healed someone who hadn’t specifically asked for her help. It happened during carriage rides, when she was shopping for furniture, giving a public lecture, or just having a conversation with a friend—or even a foe. How did she do it? According to her own writings and biographies of her life, the key was in her way of thinking.
It was Mrs. Eddy’s practice to keep her thoughts attuned to God, to divine Love. Right in the midst of her busy life, she consciously loved God, and she loved others in the way she would want them to love her. And it was this divine Love, reflected in her love for God and humanity, that healed people.
