THROUGH his spiritual perception of the truth of being, the Christian Science nurse gains strength, courage, helpfulness, assurance, tender sympathy, and love. In proportion to his own regeneration from the belief of life in matter, he becomes increasingly equipped to uplift and cheer all those whom it is his duty to serve. As he persistently holds to the truth that man is God's reflection, spiritual and not material, he does his valiant part in co-operating with the Christian Science practitioner. His right thinking—accepting good and denying evil—in no way encroaches upon the practitioner's work, but helps in bringing about the healing.
The Christian Science nurse, in his ministrations for the sick, does not ask questions relative to disease or discord, because he knows that would tend to fasten a belief of illness in the thought of the patient; nor does he watch physical symptoms. Always he endeavors to rely wholly upon Mind, God, in his care of the sick.
In his practical aid to all those under his immediate care, the Christian Science nurse not infrequently finds it imperative to take a firm mental stand against some false evidence of disease, injury, or wound, which it is his duty to attend to. At such times he realizes, more than at any other time perhaps, how vital is his "first aid," in right thinking, because the tempter would have him believe that matter is real and calls for deference and solemn regard. But the nurse's faithful practice of benevolence proves to be his unfailing support in every circumstance that may arise; and, "strong in faith, giving glory to God," he finds himself joyously replacing in his own thinking the belief of disease with health, decay with the glorious qualities of Mind—holiness, purity, divine energy, vitality, strength.
