Hair Loss Healed

Mrs. Eddy expected Christian Scientists, when confronted with physical ailments, to pray – relying solely on God to ‘resolve things into thoughts, and exchange the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul.’ This was certainly how she worked for herself. Less than a week after her correspondence with Mr. Farlow, Mrs. Eddy told one of her secretaries: ‘Our thought must be scientific in all things, even the littlest of any. One time my hair was coming out in handfuls, and I could not stop it until I thought God will protect, – ‘the very hairs of your head are numbered,’ – then it stopped.