The drama critic for The Wall Street Journal was skeptical about the live opera telecasts the Metropolitan Opera is beaming to movie theaters around the world—until he went to one. He says they provide the audience with a much better experience than going to the Met itself; the video director's decisions resulted in a show far more involving than the one the critic saw of the same opera on opening night at the opera house.

The critic calls the telecast "overwhelming—one of the most memorable experiences I've had in a lifetime of opera-going." Another audience member he talked with said the telecast performance "got me right in the throat."

And the icing on the cake? Good seats for a performance at the Met go for $295, even $320 apiece. Seats for the telecasts cost $22.

A better experience for a cheaper price. Who wouldn't sing its praises?

And that brings us to Christian Science treatment for disease. Countless people have found it more effective and quicker than standard medical treatment. Many would echo the critic's comment about the opera telecast: a Christian Science healing is one of the most memorable experiences of life. And Christian Science treatment generally costs far less than conventional medical care.

What makes a Christian Science healing memorable isn't just the physical cure, although people certainly notice that. What's really striking, though, is the effect it often has, the feeling it creates. It's as if you (and everything else) have been washed clean, and you see things in a different light. You understand more about God and reality. There's no other feeling like it. At the same time that it bestows an almost otherworldly peace and calm, it invigorates you like nothing else.

No wonder people who witnessed Christ Jesus' healing work said things like "We never saw it on this fashion" (Mark 2:12). Such healing grabs you by the throat—figuratively speaking, of course—and changes you. You're not likely to be the same again.

"Thought imbued with purity, Truth, and Love, instructed in the Science of metaphysical healing, is the most potent and desirable remedial agent on the earth," Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, writes (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 3). Those who have experienced such healing generally agree wholeheartedly.

It has to be said that Christian Scientists, like conventional medical practitioners, don't have a perfect record of healing, and great compassion and help is due all those who aren't cured, whatever the method. But it also has to be said that Christian Science has cured many people whose cases have been given up by doctors.

A better experience, maybe even a life-altering one, for a cheaper price. What's not to like?

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The Wall Street Journal — "The Metropolitan Opera Goes to the Movies"