Article March 15, 1969 Issue

How Do I Begin?

CONSTANCE MARIE NEALE

Perhaps Christian Science has just come into your life. You may have attended your first service in a Christian Science church or attended a Christian Science lecture for the first time. Perhaps a friend or relative has lent you a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. The periodical you are now reading may be the first Christian Science periodical you have read. And you are interested. A natural question comes, "How do I begin?"

The fact that Christian Science is in accord with the teachings of Christ Jesus, and claims that the sick can be healed and the sinner reformed by the same spiritual means Jesus employed, may appeal to you. You would like to heal and to be healed by the Christly method of spiritual healing. Perhaps you earnestly desire to be freed from degrading habits, such as addiction to tobacco, liquor, or other enslavements. You would give much to be free of worry, fear, anxiety, and all their miserable effects. Christian Science offers all these freedoms. And you ask, "How can I demonstrate this liberty?"

One begins by opening his heart wide to the qualities of humility, spiritual receptivity, childlikeness—conditions of thought Jesus said were essential to entering the kingdom of heaven. Jesus also said, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."  Luke 17: 20, 21; From these statements it may be reasonably deduced that the kingdom of heaven, or the kingdom of God, is a state of mind, or consciousness, that knows only God, utter good.

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