ON a Saturday afternoon not long ago, a young man who is a professional singer and who had already enrolled himself as a Christian Science student, visited a more experienced Scientist and asked help for what seemed to be a serious throat disorder. Considerably alarmed at the symptoms, he said that he had several times in the past been afflicted in like manner, and that each succeeding attack had been much more severe than the one before it, practically laying him up for from one to three and four weeks. He also stated that on the following Tuesday evening he was scheduled to participate in a difficult musical program, and that he did not see how he would be able to fill the engagement. His whole thought seemed centered on the physical discord and the musical performance, while at the same time he was afraid that some relatives and friends would detect his inharmony and would ridicule him for having failed to restore himself to health and strength.
"You seem to know much about the error in the premises," said the helper. "Now just turn yourself and know something about the truth which the greatest of all healers said should make mortals free. You are trying to live in the future and are not making use of the opportunities at hand. It is obvious that you need to change your basis of thinking, and to realize the import of those mighty commands of Scripture which say, 'Take ... no thought for the morrow;' 'Take no thought . . . for your body.' "
"These commands have puzzled me a good deal since I began the study of Christian Science," remarked the singer, "and I am glad that you have directed attention to them. Do you think that we are to take them just as they read? Do you think that we should never under any circumstances take thought for the morrow or for the body?"
