Article June 22, 1899 Issue

Questions and Answers

G. C. G., An Observer

Is it in disobedience of any expressed or implied wish of the Mother, for a Christian Science practitioner to meet weekly with a number of his or her patients, for the purpose of studying the current lessons from the Christian Science Quarterly, when all questions arising from such study are answered impersonally by the reading of passages from Science and Health?—G. C. G.

While such meetings have not been prohibited they have not been recommended. The Sunday service and the Wednesday evening meetings are no doubt sufficient to meet our present requirements. Anything further must be the outgrowth of individual necessity and experience. It is a very convenient way to study the lesson for one person to read from the Bible and another to read from Science and Health, but may not this method of study rob the student of some of the benefits to be derived from applying himself to the personal reading of both the Bible and Science and Health? Personal comments and explanations are undesirable since these books are their own best interpreters. He who relies most on the Impersonal Teacher will undoubtedly make the most rapid progress. The sooner patients and students learn this all-important lesson, the better it will be for them. The temptation to rely upon personality should be carefully guarded against. All concerned in such meetings should judge them by their fruits as to whether it is the best method of advancing individual growth, and likewise conducive to the better establishment of the cause of Christian Science in the community.

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