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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
I 989
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Published by
Elmdon Publications
Elmdon, Saffron Walden, Essex, England
1989
In association with
Christian Science Foundation, England |