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A woman once remarked to the famous naturalist John Burroughs that she didn’t have any birds in her garden. Not a one.

Christian Scientists don’t treat others metaphysically without their consent, but we can still pray generally to see the truth about God and all of His creation.

My teenage son had been threatened by a fellow classmate and urged to engage in a fistfight after school. He hardly knew the other student, but agreed to meet him—to face him and tell him there wouldn’t be any fight.

A Christian Science Sunday School teacher once pointed out to our class of young teens that Jesus never instructed his followers, “Worship me. ” Rather, he counseled them, “Follow me” and “Heal the sick” ( Matthew 4:19; 10:8 ).

To learn what brings about healings and to understand divine Science, it’s important to go to the books—the Bible, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and Mary Baker Eddy’s other writings. We shouldn’t look to other people’s testimonies for guides or formulas for how we should pray.  

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, uses an interesting term— alterative —to describe divine Truth, with its healing effect on human minds and bodies. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, she writes, “Truth is an alterative in the entire system, and can make it ‘every whit whole’ ” ( p.

When a relative stays at a Christian Science nursing facility, she finds quick healing. 

Grasping after shadows as if they were substance, we never find the actual stuff of the universe: spiritual ideas. To the extent we seek after these divine ideas for their own sake, however, their appropriate human expression will surely appear. 

I didn’t grow up in a Christian Science family. But as an active member of another Protestant church whose members loved the Bible, I believed deeply in the power of prayer.

Allison Stewart, Mary Baker Eddy’s publisher, objected to her using this word in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (see We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Expanded Edition, Vol. 2, pp.