The true practice that nullifies malpractice

Many people have experienced the benefits of the practice of Christian Science. It blesses individuals in every direction. It restores health, spiritualizes one’s thought, brings greater happiness and freedom from fear, and regenerates character. This spiritually scientific, Christian practice involves heartfelt prayer that brings increasing understanding of the truth of God and man. It also requires a heartfelt living of the truth, so far as we comprehend it.

In her discovery of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy learned that true, loving thoughts and sincere affirmations of spiritual truth open our thought to the Christ, the message of Truth and Love that brings healing and regeneration. Such genuine practice of Christian Science is a continuing source of health, joy, and safety, as we place our faith in the reality and allness of God, good.

Mrs. Eddy also discovered that the perversion of Christian, scientific prayer—mental arguments that deny truth and maliciously affirm evil about others—can, if it’s not resisted, seem to produce negative, baneful effects. She termed this perversion mental malpractice. This false, self-deluded practice puts its faith in the carnal mind and evil rather than in the reality of divine Mind and its goodness. Because of this, malpractice rests on an illusion and is the indulgence of an illusion. Our sincere practice of Christian Science, and the understanding of truth that this brings, keep us safe from illusory evil, enabling us to prove that man is truly, and forever, under God’s loving government.

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