BECAUSE Christian Science has proved to its followers to be such a practical, provable, healing religion, it naturally follows that they would like their loved ones, friends, and neighbors, yes, all mankind, to share in its beneficence. It is a commendable thing to want to see more and more people attracted to the Christ, Truth, and to see this attraction manifested in ever-increasing church attendance and membership. As with every phase of human activity, our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gives us wise counsel on this important subject. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she says (p. 102): "There is but one real attraction, that of Spirit. The pointing of the needle to the pole symbolizes this all-embracing power or the attraction of God, divine Mind." It is, then, the Christ-spirit manifested by us that will bring the stranger into our midst and convince him of the truth of Christian Science.
Note that Mrs. Eddy refers to the attraction of Spirit as "all-embracing." God, divine Mind, embraces all His children in His love, for God is the parent Mind, and the spiritual man is His offspring. In the place where mortal man appears to be, then, God's spiritual man really is, forever embraced in God's love and attracted to Him. This is true of the people in our community —those we should like to see become interested in Christian Science. As we embrace our community in this type of spiritual thinking, we help our neighbors to arouse themselves from the belief in matter's reality and the necessity for sin, sickness, and death. When we refuse to accept mortal mind's claims of indifference or opposition, we are doing our part in bringing further spiritual light into our environment. We are acknowledging the attraction of Spirit.
Now someone may say, "How can the spiritualization of my thinking result in attracting the stranger to Christian Science?" It is, as we know, the spiritualization of our own thought that helps us to heal. As we become more Christlike in our thinking, we become better healers. And it is healing that will catch our neighbor's eye, arouse his interest, and attract him to our church. In "Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy," Irving C. Tomlinson quotes Mrs. Eddy as saying (p. 46): "Unless we have better healers, and more of this work than any other, is done, our Cause will not 'stand and having done all stand.' Demonstration is the whole of Christian Science, nothing else proves it, nothing else will save it and continue it with us. God has said this—and Christ Jesus has proved it."
