Christian Science students, after experiencing physical healing, naturally desire to apply the teachings of Christian Science to the problems which confront them in their business or social and domestic relationships. In so doing they may encounter trials which, if they fail not, will both strengthen their faith and increase their understanding of the laws through which the divine Mind expresses itself. Although they are glad to part with bodily ills, they may be reluctant to part with faults of character, or even to recognize them.
A problem to be faced at times is self-justification, and a valuable discovery to make at this stage is the fact that sometimes other people are right and sometimes we are wrong. Many are reluctant to make this admission; but nothing brings so great a peace of mind to the student as the discovery that there is but one right because there is one Mind, God, the Father of all. Self-justification is then seen to be merely an attempt to justify mortal mind and everything included in that term. Self-immolation or humility teaches us how to lose with God, how to lose self-righteousness and find our true selfhood, born of God, sustained by divine Principle, and nourished by spiritual thinking and understanding.
The healing of faults of character is even more important than the healing of physical disease, for we are entering upon the highway which leads to perfection. An obstinate sense of self-assurance is a sure sign that one does not trust God, and should not for a moment be tolerated in our thought. Humility and tenderness are signs of progress.
