ABSTRACT
Christian Science's great attraction was not its metaphysics but its claim to be a science of health. Eddy and the practitioners she trained, including many women, interpreted scripture as giving the key to individual healing of sickness, anxiety, and sin. When the mind of the individual attained harmony with that of God, then Mind, Truth cast out error and banished sickness and anxiety. Individuals could thus gain Truth and prosper; conventional medical practitioners were irrelevant, if not harmful. By the 1930s Christian Science, the best organized of the forms of New Thought, had reached membership of over a quarter of a million.
