Article November 11, 1939 Issue

"Play the game"

[Written Especially for Young People]

JEANNE ROE PRICE

THE coach called his men together. It was the last practice before the big game. Only a few rules were needed, he said—rules they had been using all season, rules they all knew and had proved: "Hold the ball in your arms, close to you; head straight for the goal; watch your interference; then play the game!"

Human experience has often been likened to a game—a game made up of victories or defeats; team play or lack of team play; holding one's ideals close, or dropping them under stress of circumstance or when difficulties arise: watching or not watching the interference which, in turn, may prove an asset for progress, or a liability; heading straight for the goal, or being pushed or lured aside by unstable thinking, promises of pleasure in matter, or the trickery and treachery of mortal mind in all its many phases; playing the game, or giving up in discouragement and doubt when the game is scarcely begun! Well, indeed, may the instructions given on a football field be applied to the daily living and thinking of each one of us.

Christian Science is a practical religion. Its followers are admonished, in the words of the Apostle James, to be "doers of the word, and not hearers only," and to show their faith by their works, knowing full well, even as James knew, that if any of them "lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." Throughout the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, and the author of its textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," is practical instruction as to how to be "doers of the word," and how to "play the game."

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