Article June 30, 1973 Issue

When Do We Begin to Practice Christian Science?

SARA VELTMAN TUCKER

When does one begin to practice the spiritual harmonizing and healing method of Christian Science? When does a musician begin to practice playing his instrument? Isn't it when he has learned one musical technique he can practice? When a person has learned one spiritual fact, he can begin to put it to practical use in overcoming some discord in his thought, character, or experience.

I know a woman who very early in her study of Christian Science began to utilize the spiritual facts she was gaining from it. She had a growth on the end of one of her fingers. It had been removed previously by surgery but had returned. In the Christian Science periodicals she read testimonies telling of others being healed of such things, and she felt sure there was healing for her too. She began to apply some of the spiritual facts she was learning. Though the pain accompanying the growth ceased, the growth was still very much in evidence.

One day she read of a woman being healed of a tumor by analyzing the thought behind it. As she pondered this, it came to her that the thought behind this growth on her finger was just a false belief that matter was really substantial, could grow and was growing. Without being aware of it, she had followed a very important rule, that is, to consider things as thoughts.

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