Comments on an article entitled, “This is a healing service. . .”

The article commented on in this post may have been intended for Church members primarily, since it originally appeared in The Christian Science Journal and was republished on christianscience.com. I am calling attention to the article, because it may also be of value to anyone interested in healing, that they may know the importance of healing in Christian Science Churches, and what undergirds this activity.

I dutifully pray for healings to occur during our Church services. This is in answer to the invitation to silent prayer, when Christian Scientists pray specifically for the congregation. I just finished reading the article that the
title-link above goes to, and may even have adopted this practice from hearing the author encourage this.

The article begins with the telling of an experience of the author, George Theodore Waller, who witnessed to a healing that was the outcome of such prayer. It took place in The Mother Church, during the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Christian Science, in June, 1966.

One paragraph leads with the question: "Do we expect healings today at every Sunday service of a Church of Christ, Scientist?" I like this question, because it serves as a rousing call to us Christian Scientists, to awake to the declaration that "This is a healing service...," and understand that each of us have a part in it. The expectation is to forsee healing, and to see, in communion with God, the wholeness and oneness of God and His creation.

The importance of studying [Emphasis added.] the weekly Bible Lesson, rather than a cursory "20-minute adventure," culminates in this brief-but-cogent sentence: "it is a precious opportunity to study, pray, reason, and demonstrate the truths therein—taking this elevated 'consciousness thus prepared' to the Sunday services."

There are a few paragraphs in which the author handles issues that would detract some from achieving the elevated consciousness that supports healing.

In three paragraphs just before the final paragraph, the author tells of another healing experience during the Church service, when he was First Reader in a Church in Connecticut. It concerns a substitute soloist who was having difficulty singing while rehearsing prior to the service.

The article concludes with these words:  "As we live and rejoice in the truths of this divine Science, healing services will abound throughout the universe, meeting the needs of all mankind."