Following The Church Of Christ Book Summary

The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also the author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. She described the book as her best work. She published it in1875. This book is preached about in the church. The church is a “healing church” the church is there for the words of Christ, but also the healing of others who claim that they didn’t need doctors to heal their sickness. The church had more than 50,000 testimonies of people who were sick but not yet diagnosed through a professional doctor. There were practitioners who worked for the church as healers to the people. These practitioners took time off their daily lives to work throughout the day to heal the people. In …show more content…
When it was time for funerals there were specifics for the service as well. There were no doctors that could justify the reasons for death considering there were no medical backgrounds for any decedent. The Medical Examiner would have to sign or the jurisdiction of the coroner. There were no restrictions to the decedent for the dressing. Embalming and casket choice also had no restrictions .Any method of Final Disposition was acceptable the funeral could be held at any location except the church. The Bible and the book of Mary Baker Eddy were the studies of the practitioners and anyone who worked for the church. The primary instructions were given in the chapters that Mary wrote and the words were followed. Following the years of healing and accepting the people coming through the church there were still many deaths that took place. Not enough for the people to stop coming of having disbelief that the church wasn’t healing anyone. The finance of the church dropped dramatically in the past eight decades. Losing many employees. Turning into a debt and loss of eight million dollars. The Church obviously had had a bad experience at one point, but now years after seems to be doing