Editorial February 20, 1943 Issue

An Introduction to Christian Science Practice

Peter V. Ross

Many a person, listening to his first Christian Science church service, silently rehearses to himself the truths he hears and applies them to problems confronting him. Others, attending their first Christian Science lecture, carry on a similar argument. Still others, when for the first time reading Christian Science literature, challenge their difficulties with the facts gleaned from the printed page. To such people the practice of Christian Science is, at sight, a perfectly natural and almost irresistible process.

Others there are who defer their practical use of Christian Science indefinitely. They attend lectures and church services; they read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy; they employ a Christian Science practitioner on occasion. Yet they are strangely slow to utilize, by personal effort, what they hear or read or believe, in healing themselves or others.

Now and then a person, after a brief but faithful study of Christian Science, without yet having had the benefit of class instruction, is asked by others for treatment. He should respond if he feels equal to the situation, and favorable results should be expected.

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