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After offering a job to a refugee, a church in Cairo, Egypt, soon found * itself “full of refugees’’ - and out of money. “Like Solomon,” explained one adherent, “our members asked for wisdom in how to deal with “this thy so great a people’.” Praying to see each person, not as a refugee but as “a child of God,” the church was able to continue to help and to heal those who came. One individual was healed of malaria, others found needed work, shelter and a lessening of fear.
This report was given as part of the 92nd annual meeting of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, June 6, which focused on the wide range of spiritual healing going on in the denomination.
In the wake of legal challenges to the practice of Christian healing, church officials affirmed the denomination’s historical commitment to spiritual healing, and emphasized , the context of love and responsibility and overall success in which it continues to be practiced.
Also discussed was the church’s expansion of The Christian Science Monitor, including the launching this fall of a daily televised edition of “Monitor NewsWorld” and the September start-up of a new monthly magazine, World Monitor.
Reporting for the church’s fivemember board of directors, incoming chairman John Lewis Selover took up the question of New Testament healing in modern times. He noted that the “healing record” of Christian Science extends through
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