In answer to the question (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 71), "Is it right for me to treat others, when I am not entirely well myself?" Mrs. Eddy says in part, "It is unquestionably right to do right; and healing the sick is a very right thing to do." The earnest worker may derive much comfort from this wise counsel, for the question sometimes arises with Christian Scientists as to their fitness to help others when they themselves are facing a problem. Pondering our Leader's direct and simple answer, we may immediately realize that it is always right to do good, and be governed accordingly.
Were all Christian Scientists to submit to the argument of unworthiness, our Cause would greatly suffer. Let us strip it of its falsity, and see that it is only error seeking to save itself from annihilation. Truly, the false sense of a selfhood apart from God is always unworthy; but in proportion as this unreal sense of existence is laid off we are able to interpret the truth of being to the one who asks for help.
If the belief that is presented by one asking for help seems similar to that which is troubling the one whose help is sought, this should afford a priceless opportunity to realize the impersonal nature of error; and in thus doing, and helping another, we shall ourselves be helped. A suggestion of sickness or discord is no more true about one individual than it is about another, although sense-testimony would have us see it as real in our own case even while we are trying to unsee it for another. The right view of man as the perfect child of God, realized, will destroy the belief that any form of inharmony has any reality, power, or existence. Discord is not real, for God does not know of it; and we learn through demonstration that evil has no entity, and that there is no person through whom it can claim to operate.
