Webster defines an "office" as, "The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted." To the practitioner of Christian Science this definition is fraught with meaning. His office is more than four walls in a certain building in a city center or in a home. His office is the place where the very essence of Life, Truth, and Love is realized. It is a sanctuary where the Father's business is transacted with humility, honesty, compassion, and confidence for the spiritual regeneration of mankind. It expresses simplicity and harmony in detail and is a place where one can come and exchange the yoke of bondage for the garment of peace, health, happiness.
The calm reassuring poise of the practitioner creates confidence, for he feels freedom in uncovering mortal mind's lie of destruction, knowing, as he does, that divine Love is ever present and understood. The atmosphere resulting from the clear realization of God's omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, and omniaction, Truth's verities, causes those who enter to be lifted from material beliefs to the acceptance of spiritual realities. Enlisted to lessen sin, disease, and death, the worker has taken the offensive against these aggressive suggestions of mortal mind through the establishment of an office for the healing work of Christian Science.
Every earnest student of Christian Science is endeavoring to prove the words and works of the master Christian as we are taught in the Bible and the writings of our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. The giving of one's entire time to the healing work is individual demonstration and is made through progressive study, prayer, and practice. Divine Love is the heart of Christian Science. Only through love for God and man do we prove the truth, and proving is practicing, whether in an office, a home, a shop, or elsewhere; whether proving for oneself or for others. Constant love for God and man continuously prompts us to include all mankind in our expression of Love, regardless of what mortal mind endeavors to picture to us.
