Article February 21, 1925 Issue

"Whatsoever ye do"

MARJORIE SHULER

THE opportunities to practice Christian Science are numberless, and they include mankind's relation to every creature. These opportunities are not limited by time, place, or the position of the student. Failure to see beyond the presure of material tasks, or lack of preparation to do the required work, sometimes may obscure the vision; but one who is seeking faithfully to prove the nothingness of disease, sin, or inharmony certainly will find the opportunity right where he is. Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us in "Pulpit and Press" (p. 15), "Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil."

Since healing the sick and the sinning is the proof of individual growth in the knowledge and understanding of God, and since universal recognition of the kingdom of heaven on earth is advanced through the healing done by all Christian Scientists, the student looks forward to enlarging his opportunities for this service by becoming an authorized practitioner. An excellent start in this preparation is the denial of the claims of evil as they present themselves in the home, at business, or anywhere in the daily round.

Nothing can keep patients away from one who is prepared to aid them. The patient may be at the next desk, or he may come from outside. He is not likely to be attracted by a thought which is contemptuous, irritable, impatient, discontented with the daily tasks. But if the student is seeking to express perseverance, thoroughness, and faithfulness in all that he does, and shows his love for God by his love for mankind, then the fact that he is in a place of business will not deter one with a problem from asking him for help in its solution. Similarly, the cares of a home need not in themselves be a bar to patients, if the student persistently refuses to admit monotony, or drudgery, or emptiness in relation to her tasks, and shows to her family and to her neighbors that she has found that which makes her cheerful, joyous, peaceful, a better rather than a poorer home-maker.

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