0.0 – Christian Science – 16 Books by Mary Baker Eddy – 2 – Christian Healing

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The second book is a twin with the first; they date from a similar period, cover parallel ground, and exhibit equal vigour. Because they represent the twin roots of Christian Science, both treat of God as divine Principle, and both relate the understanding of God to healing. Now although Christian Healing was delivered as a sermon and issued as a pamphlet as early as 1880 - which is three years before The People\'s Idea of God- the Journal did not mention or advertize it until some while after the text of the latter had appeared in its pages. The Journal chronology is our guide, and evidently Mrs Eddy decided to publicize The People\'s Idea if God first. This parallels our personal experience of Christian Science: although usually it is the healing that engages us first, it is actually the revelation of God\'s allness that is primary and has in fact produced the healing. The title page of Christian Healing shows it as a sermon, but in the first edition it was described as a lecture. Perhaps this is significant, in that Mrs Eddy\'s life-work was to shift the emphasis of Christianity away from sermonizing that did not heal and to present it more as practical Science; indeed the term \"Science of Christianity\" occurs now in this book (p. 7). Note too that the title is Christian healing, not mental or even spiritual. For instance we find, \"the genius of Christianity is works more than words; a calm and steadfast communion with God\" (p. 2). \"The primitive privilege of Christianity was to make men better, to cast out error, and heal the sick\" (p. 3). We read that as materialization \"stole into religion, it lost Christianity and the power to heal\" (p. 3). Again, \"metaphysics requires mind imbued with Truth to heal the sick\" (p. II). In this unification one begins to hear the same keynote as the second chapter of Science and Health, ATONEMENT AND EUCHARIST. The chapter begins, \"Atonement is the exemplification of man\'s unity with God, whereby man reflects divine Truth, Life, and Love\" (S&H 18). It goes on to spell out this unity: \"Those who cannot demonstrate, at least in part, the divine Principle of the teachings and practice of our Master have no part in God\" (S&H 19). See Mary Baker Eddy\'s Other Writings by John L. Morgan (1984)
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