Article February 21, 1948 Issue

ALWAYS "IN CONDITION"

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

GRACE K. STICHT

Tennis had been the favorite sport of a student of Christian Science since childhood, and for many years she had played almost daily during the tennis season. After a lapse of two years in which she had had no time to play this game, an opportunity again presented itself for a match. When a friend laughingly remarked that she would be stiff and sore the next day, the Scientist was instantly alert to reverse this truthless imposition of the one evil, mortal mind.

Christian Science teaches that God is good, and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, defines good (p. 587) as "God; Spirit; omnipotence; omnipresence; omni-action." The student pondered this definition and reasoned that since good is omniaction, man, the expression of God, good, is always active. Thus he has no need to "get in condition." She saw that she must take a vigorous mental stand against the subtle lie of mortal mind that man can be lame or stiff. She expectantly claimed these scientific truths as the fact about her real selfhood as the child of God.

She started to play, but her shots went wild or popped ineffectually into the net, and she found herself trying desperately to "get back on her game." She wanted very much to win, but began to be afraid that she would be roundly beaten. Seeing that she was getting nowhere from a human standpoint, she began to reason from the spiritual, as she had been taught to do in Christian Science. Once again a statement from Science and Health came to her thought (p. 445): "Christian Science silences human will, quiets fear with Truth and Love, and illustrates the unlabored motion of the divine energy in healing the sick."

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