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Would You Be a Practitioner?
A practitioner, of course, is one who practices. A mathematician is one who practices mathematics. A Christian Scientist is one who practices, who strives to live, the great truths of his religion. Thus everyone who has touched the hem of the healing message of Christian Science should consider himself, in the broadest sense of the word, a practitioner of Christian Science, and therefore should feel that he is about his Father's business.
Suppose a young student of Christian Science, one who is not a recognized and listed practitioner in The Christian Science Journal, is asked to heal a sick friend. Should that student decline to offer "a cup of cold water ... in the name of a disciple," to use the Master's words, because he or she is not an advertised worker in the movement? Certainly not. If to the best of his ability the student has been putting into practice the truths he has learned, he is a practicing Christian Scientist, and as such should happily and confidently respond to an appeal for aid.

September 30, 1944 issue
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"Rise and pray"
CLINTON BENT
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A Smiling Face
MARTHA J. BUCKNER
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Spontaneity
MARGARET WEYMOUTH JACKSON
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Reading Room
LAURA H. RAYMOND
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The Great Spiritual Fact
GILBERT R. SMITH
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Neither Isolated, Nor Solitary
MAY CREAMER
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Omnipresence
EDITH COONLEY HOWES
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Demonstrating Unity in Our Churches
CORA CATHERINE MASON
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Light through the Windowpane
EDNA B. WILLIAMS
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Would You Be a Practitioner?
John Randall Dunn
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"The great point of departure"
Paul Stark Seeley
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The distorted account of Christian Science...
Lt. Col. Robert E. Key,
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That We Be Born Again
LYDIA A. WILBER
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A few years ago I attended a...
Emelie Ferguson
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My introduction to Christian Science...
Louise Irene Oxenham
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Christian Science came to me...
Nellie Q. Watters
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I find I cannot let any more...
Margaret Wagg
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That God is a very present help...
Nellie Kearns Horn
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I received my introduction to...
Thomas D. M. Latta
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For many years my life has...
Millie Griffin
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It is time that I expressed in...
Lilly G. Walter, Carl E. Walter
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Angels' Song
ALICE PERRIN BAKER
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from Russell Kay, William James Robinson, A. C. Decker, Henry Geerlings, Malcolm W. Bingay, J. D. McCrae, Eric A. Johnston