Article May 21, 1960 Issue

TO BE COUNTED AS A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST

HELEN H. HIXON

Not long ago I was walking to church on a Sunday morning. As a group of people passed me I heard one of them say, "Oh, but I'm not counted as a Christian Scientist."' Of course I do not know what had preceded the remark, but it started a chain of challenging questions in my thought.

What does it mean to be counted as a Christian Scientist? What does it involve? What does the public expect of one who is so known? When we bear that name, what is our responsibility to God, to our church affiliation, and to the world? The answers to these questions are to be found in the Bible, especially in the words and works of Christ Jesus, and in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and in her other writings.

A good place to start a search for the answers might be in Jesus' reply to the lawyer who questioned, him, saying (Matt. 22:36), "Which is the great commandment in the law?" Jesus said: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. . . . And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

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