Article March 4, 1972 Issue

The Practitioner's Helpfulness to the Community

THEODORE N. COOK

The Christian Science practitioner has a "hot line" to the community. He is committed to bear witness among his neighbors to a great fact: that the divine healing power is present and available under all circumstances and conditions. He has dedicated himself to the communication of good, of hope, redemption and transformation, without partiality or fear.

But a practitioner's "hot line"—that direct channel of communication open day and night to those in need—is not very "hot" unless it is active. At the practitioner's end of the line there is need for steadfast witness to the attraction of Spirit. Spirit's radiation is a law of unerring attraction to receptive hearts. It is also a protection against merely argumentative intrusion.

Equally vital for activity is the strangers' responding intuition that a Christian Science practitioner is someone who cares enough about people to be patient with their fears and traumas; he is someone who sees man so clearly as the unfallen idea of God that burdens of material-mindedness give way to man's native purity and perfection.

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