Article December 11, 1948 Issue

PRACTICE AND PRACTITIONER

GRACE BANKS SAMMONS

Christian Science practice with its resultant healing is the most powerful and important activity on earth, and it must be seen and upheld as such by Christian Scientists everywhere. Christian healing is the foundation stone of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Indeed, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, once wrote to a student, "A real scientific Healer is the highest position attainable in this sphere of being."

Christian Science practice is not a commercial enterprise; it is the highest of ministries. Since it is of God, it is not limited in the range of good it may unfold. All that is true about this sacred activity exists as a complete and ever-present idea in divine Mind, God; and man, the conscious likeness of this Mind, includes and embodies this idea by reflection and is therefore inseparable from it. Thus the practitioner may know that his practice is dependent on God alone and not upon persons. This understanding frees him from a sense of fear and limitation, and the outward result is a harmonious and growing usefulness in the healing work.

Qualified individuals entering the public practice of Christian Science should not be discouraged by others, nor should they allow either fear or doubt to obscure their vision, darken their understanding, or undermine their conviction of the importance of the step they are taking. The value of a consecrated practitioner in any community cannot be overestimated; and the addition of such workers to the ranks of our practitioners is welcomed by all thoughtful students, for it means a stronger church and more active support for every other worker in that field and for the Cause of Christian Science. The work of practitioners cannot be measured or weighed in the balance with the finite concepts of material sense. What is known to the divine Mind, not the feeble flickerings of mere human opinion, always governs.

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