"Whoever reaches the understanding of Christian Science in its proper signification will perform the sudden cures of which it is capable." So writes Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 178, 179). Our beloved Leader, above all others, was justified in making this statement, inasmuch as she herself was restored to health through spiritual illumination. Later on she set down in the textbook above mentioned the revelation she had received. To "perform the sudden cures" of which Christian Science is capable is the sincere aim of every Christian Science practitioner— every working Christian Scientist— who seeks to apply, in personal and world problems, that which he increasingly grasps of this all-redeeming truth.
In this respect we are frequently reminded that specific work must be done to produce effective results. In this instance the term "specific" means that those truths should be declared which directly apply to the case in hand—spiritual truths that will effectively and quickly rule out the seeming error, because these healing truths have the support and power of omnipotent divine Truth. Valiantly, therefore, and confidently may the Christianly scientific worker start each new day with the fervent prayer for divine guidance, and proceed to specific denial of error in each arising problem. Said the Master to his disciples, "It shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak." As students of Christian Science we know that error is not real, whatever form it may assume; but in order that it may be proved to be nothing, its presumptions must be dealt with specifically and speedily.
The Christianly scientific teaching that man reflects all the divine qualities because he has his being in God, constitutes a firm foundation for the healing work. Many are familiar with Mrs. Eddy's definition of God (Science and Health, p. 465), "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love." It should be clearly comprehended that because of the incorporeality, divinity, supremacy, and infinitude indicated by each and all of these synonyms, man's being is secure in his reflection of God, and is untouched by the onslaughts of corporeal sense— finite, erroneous, evil belief. Through knowing this truth, the student proves the specific evil to be nonexistent, and the healing is done.
