I practice Christian Science in my daily life. I don't say that I'm great at it; in fact, sometimes I fall far short of the ideal. Often, even. But sometimes I have a mental breakthrough and pray rightly, and healing results in me or someone else.
I'm not gonna try to explain CS here but to tell a brief story that I just read in an e-mail from a friend. It was a testimony recently in the Mother Church in Boston, by a respected member of the CS community:
"I spoke for a few hours last week with a Jewish Rabbi. He told of coming from Israel a couple years ago to see his father here in the US because the doctors said a disease had progressed to the point his dad had only days to live. After visiting with his dad the Rabbi took a walk to clear his thought and he walked by a CS Reading Room. He walked in and had a discussion with the attendant.
"This happened a couple of days in a row and to make a long story short, his dad was healed in those few days. It caused quite a commotion with the doctors and the family.
"The Rabbi is now quietly sharing this revelation he has found in [the book] Science and Health with friends and acquaintances in Israel, feeling CS is the answer for him and his country. A Jewish Rabbi can discover and demonstrate this revelation so decisively in today's world. To him it's a simple matter, spelled out on pages 360-361 of Science and Health, where the book talks of the Jew and Christian finding common ground in divine revelation."
I know some Jews will brush off this story as propaganda from the Jews for Jesus folks. However, I know the man who told the story and trust him.
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