The healing work of Christian
Science
John L. Morgan
INTRODUCTION
This booklet is an edited report of a series of talks
given by John Morgan in South Africa in 1987. The talks were requested by
Christian Scientists who were concerned to become more effective in their work
for themselves and for the world. They also wanted to interest their friends in
this world-healing work of Christian Science. The form these talks took, and
that this booklet follows, was:
PART I. Healing in Christian Science. This part
focused on why spiritual healing is scientific and natural and not just an
occasional miraculous happening.
PART II. Questions and answers. In particular
these were concerned with how Christian Science enables us to face such
fundamental questions as our apparent separateness from God. The burning
question in South Africa today is known throughout the world by the name
apartheid - a separateness that is enforced by legislation. By searching for
the fundamental spiritual view of these questions we find the truth that
naturally brings about a change of attitude. This inevitable change, which is
impelled by Truth, gives reason for the 'good hope' for humanity that is
expressed in the name the early settlers in the Cape gave to their country.
PART III. The Christian Science standpoint of
starting with perfection has been scoffed at as being unrealistic. The
so-called realistic view is that both good and evil have power. This assumption
is not ignored in Christian Science but is fairly faced. The means by which
these opposite views are resolved is called, in Christian Science, scientific
translation. An introduction to this essential method forms the third part of
this booklet.
PART IV. How can anyone learn more about
Christian Science? The Christian Science textbook is Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures. The author, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us that the book
contains "the complete statement of Christian Science" (Ret 37:2). Therefore an
overview of the flow of the chapters in Science and Health completes this
booklet. This last part could be read first by anyone who prefers to start his
journey with an outline map and a preview of his destination. The aim of
the talks was to offer a clear and useful introduction to Christian Science; to
be an encouragement to us all to experience that our lives are in fact
interwoven with and governed by the divine Life; to help in the discovery of
the immediate availability of the laws of God ; and to show that Christianity
is Science. It is because Christianity is Science that we are able to be
effective in our work, "for it is God that worketh in [us] both to will and to
do of his good pleasure" (Phil 2:13). This work therefore must have a healing
effect on ourselves and the entire world.
The talks that were recorded in Johannesburg have
enlarged to include important points made in Cape Town and Pretoria. The
following pages are a faithful edited transcript of the talks as my husband
gave them. It is my hope that this booklet may be a contribution towards
dissolving barriers of prejudice and misunderstanding about Christian Science.
God has set an open door before us, and the promise is that no man can shut
it.
Elmdon Marjorie F.
Essex, England
1989
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