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Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer
“The Cause needs healers” | page 205
Chapter 16

“The Cause needs healers”

(1902–1904)

Mary Baker Eddy wrote of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures : “The textbook of Christian Science maintains primitive Christianity, shows how to demonstrate it, and throughout is logical in premise and in conclusion. Can Scientists adhere to it, establish their practice of healing on its basis, become successful healers and models of good morals, and yet the book itself be absurd and unscientific? Is not the tree known by its fruit?” 1 As evidenced by her correspondence, Mrs.