Article May 26, 1923 Issue

Being a Practitioner

DAISY CYNTHIA WOOD

FREQUENTLY we hear a young student of Christian Science say, "How I wish I could be a practitioner!" Surely this desire is right, for it is the result of the deep gratitude he feels for the blessings he has received through Christian Science. It is Love's call to fulfill the Golden Rule, to do unto others as he would have others do unto him, through the sweet ministrations of Christian Science.

The longing to share with others the cheer, the courage, the healing balm of spiritual thinking, starts with the first real gleam one discerns of the ever present Christ, Truth. In the proportion that one lives in the sure consciousness and radiation of this truth can he be a practitioner. To know must be to demonstrate. One's establishment as an authorized practitioner—meaning by that one who is recognized by the Board of Directors of The Mother Church, and who is able to give all his time to the healing work, exclusive of every other occupation or profession—has been attained through persistent effort and obedience to the admonition of Mrs. Eddy in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 22): " 'Occupy till I come!' Wait for your reward, and 'be not weary in well doing.'" He has occupied his thinking with the Christ-presence, and has learned that mere human knowledge and human goodness do not heal. Only the good, which is the truth realized, heals.

"He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions." When that Word of God fills one's consciousness, it radiates its own healing power to the receptive thought, and is answered by an uplifted joy resulting in a well, harmonious body. "God will heal the sick through man, whenever man is governed by God," Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 495). So, every one who is striving, through the study of the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, to know God, to correct wrong material thinking with right, spiritual, Godlike thoughts, is practicing Christian Science. It is experience and demonstration in effectually destroying the ills of humanity and establishing the harmony of God, which constitute one a practitioner.

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