Article November 29, 1958 Issue

THE CORRECT STARTING POINT FOR TREATMENT

GILBERT JAMIESON

Every Christian Scientist is in a sense a Christian Science practitioner, even though he or she may not be listed in The Christian Science Journal. Such listing signifies that the practitioner gives his or her whole time to public practice. Nevertheless, because Christian Science, in its very essence, is scientific, those who are its students must be, at least to some extent, practicing that which they study, and to that degree they are practitioners.

As with any other subject of study, the student will have small beginnings; and his earliest efforts are likely to be on his own behalf rather than on behalf of others, though even that last statement must be qualified by the comment that there have been many testimonies of healing which have borne witness to the success of the new student. But whether the student is new or experienced, whether he is seeking healing for himself or for another, his treatment must be correct and to this end must start correctly.

When a medical practitioner starts his treatment, he does so from the standpoint that there exists some diseased condition that is in need of healing. The very essence of Christian Science teaching is, however, that since God is All and God is good, there is nothing in God's universe which is bad. Such teaching is consistent with the account of creation given in the first chapter of Genesis, where it is said that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good" (Gen. 1:31).

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