Article June 19, 1971 ISSUE

What Do You Mean—"Work"?

VIRGINIA HUBBARD TORBERG

What does "work" mean in Christian Science? Sometimes speakers at Wednesday testimony meetings use the expression "worked as we are taught in Christian Science," and to some the meaning may be obscure.

Mrs. Eddy says in her Message to The Mother Church for 1900, "The song of Christian Science is, 'Work—work—work—watch and pray.'" '00., p. 2 Sometimes in a flash of spiritual insight a healing occurs instantaneously, but often the student must earnestly study and pray to lift thought above the mortal beliefs that are deluding him, and the action of lifting his thought is referred to as "work."

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