Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-01-06
A Lecture ON
Christian Science
Entitled
The Discovery and Healing
Mission of Christian Science

The Discovery and Healing
Mission of Christian Science
Professor Hermann s. Herring, c. 8. b
Member Of the Board of Lectureship OF
Tho Mother Church. The First Church Of
Christ. Scientist. in Boston. Massachusetts
ThersE are few thoughtful persons
in the srivilized world who have not
heard Nj Christian Science and who do
not know of someone who has been
healed 9r benefited by it.
From the time that Christian Science
was first announced to the world it has
been associated with Mary Baker
Eddy. She is known as the one who
discovered it, who first practiced and
taught it, as the one who founded its
church and who is the author Of its
basic literature including the Christian
Science text book, "Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
Mrs. Eddy, as a child, had been
taught by her mother that God could
and would heal the sick. She learned
to believe implicitly in the Bible teach
ings and in the supremacy of spiritual
power, and she never lost this convic-
ton.
When trouble came upon her,
through the loss of her dearly beloved
mother, her husband, the subsequent
plot to take her child from her, and
later through domestic unhappiness,
poverty, and invalidism, she still chung
closely to the Scriptures, hoping for
an explanation of the Bible healing.
She carefully investigated many cura-
tive systems and looked into anything
that promised to explain how the So
called miracles Of the Bible were per-
formed, but nothing satisfied her
search.
Finally, she met with an accident
which the physician, who had been
called in by her friends, declared
would prove fatal. This happened on
Thursday evening. She remained
unconscious until the next morning.
Refusing to take the medicine that
had been left, she lifted her heart to
God. Three days later, which was
Sunday, a clergyman and other friends
called after church to inquire as to her
condition and found her so i'll that
her life was momentarily despaired of.
Mrs. Eddy requested them to leave
her room and, taking up her Bible, she
opened it, her eyes falling upon the
account of Jesus healing Of the pal
sled man, as recorded in the ninth
chapter of Matthew.
Her thought rested upon God and
there dawned upon her the healing
truth of the ever-present Christ. In
that moment she caught glimpse Of
the great fact that Life is Spirit, the
only real existence, and was lifted
above the physical conditions to high
spiritual plane Of consciousness. Thus
she was instantly healed and was able
to leave her bed, dress herself, and
walk into the room where the friends
were waiting the expected sad news.
Imagine their establishment when they
saw Mrs. Eddy enter the room COM
pletely restored to health! They nat
urally inquired how she was healed
and she replied that she could not tell
them then, but hoped to be able to do
so sometime.
Mrs. Eddy was deeply impressed by
her healing and by the spiritual ex-
altation which she experienced at that
time. She felt that she must find out
how this healing was done, for she
knew that it was wholly spiritual and
entirely different from the results of
any healing system which she had ever
heard of or Investigated. Withdraw
ing from society, she devoted the
next three years to a careful, prayer
full study of the Bible, seeking an I'M
derstanding of Jesus works. During
this search her thought was being
prepared for the revelation of the di-
vine Truth, the final revelation of the
divine Principle of scientific Christian
healing, which she calls "the great
curative Principle,-Deity" (Retrospec-
ton and Introspection, p. 25), and
which she explains as infinite, divine
Mind.
Several years later, in 1875, Mrs.
Eddy published her epoch-making
textbook, "Science and Health with
Key to Scriptures truly marvellous
achievement when one understands the
attending circumstances.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING
All thoughtful Bible students recog-
nize the fact that spiritual healing was
an essential element of Jesus religion
and it's practice. The accounts of his
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