healing through prayer for all time

I came across this recently (see below) and was inspired - again - at the universal scope of Christian Science and its timelessness. By naming her discovery "Christian Science" I don't think that Mary Baker Eddy meant for it to be seen as a division of Christianity, which is a division of one of the three main world religions. I believe she presented Christianity in its broadest and at its most universal. She presented Christian Science as the law of God - for everyone, to everyone, for all time.

Below is an editorial excerpt from the Christian Science Sentinel about one of the main buildings of The Mother Church at the Christian Science world headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. It does such a good job of translating a building into the meaning behind it - healing through prayer for all time.

The significance of this building is not to be found in the material structure, but in the lives of those who, under the consecrated leadership of Mrs. Eddy, and following her example, are doing the works which Jesus said should mark the lives of his followers.

It stands as the visible symbol of a religion which heals the sick and reforms the sinful as our Master healed and reformed them.

It proclaims to the world that Jesus' gospel was for all time and for all men; that it is as effective to-day as it was when he preached the Word of God to the multitudes of Judea and healed them of their diseases and their sins.

It speaks for the successful labors of one divinely guided woman, who has brought to the world the spiritual understanding of the Scriptures, and whose ministry has revealed the one true Science and changed the whole aspect of medicine and theology.

(written up in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 28, and taken from the Christian Science Sentinel, June 9, 1906)

In this explanation, Christian Science can be likened to music. The discipline of Christian Science may be taught specifically from its textbook Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and through its educational channels via the church for those who are committed to healing through prayer, similar to those who attend a music school to become musicians; and just as music is sung by all (and not just by musicians) so is Christian Science being sung - being practiced in varying degrees - throughout the world.

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