When a Christian can demonstrate his understanding of God's presence and power enough to destroy sickness, sorrow, sin, and lack, he is proving in some degree that he is a scientific Christian. A Christian without proof of his idealism might be compared to a musician without a performance or an architect without a building.
A very young Christian Scientist quickly helped his small sister free herself of an illness, because he sensed the need to apply the simple truths of God's healing power they had learned in a Christian Science Sunday School. After he had spoken these truths to her several times, he walked off, remarking emphatically with just a touch of exasperation, "If you're the child of God, you've got to act it out." The little sister knew that she was, and so she did. We each need to learn more each day about what it means to be a child of God and what the demands of God are.
Discussing Jesus' demands as they relate to us today, Mrs. Eddy states in Science and Health, "Christians are under as direct orders now, as they were then, to be Christlike, to possess the Christ-spirit, to follow the Christ-example, and to heal the sick as well as the sinning."Science and Health, p. 138; Mrs. Eddy expected her students to go out and heal others as soon as they knew how to use Christian Science in their own behalf.
