In Christian Science practice a condition is sometimes encountered which is not usual in the practice of medicine. This is the mental stir, caused when the Word of Truth is effectually and fervently affirmed in righteous prayer in order to destroy the evil in the human mind. Unruly though it may seem, this upheaval actually is harmless when its true nature is understood. If thought is prepared to deal with this mental upheaval properly, its appearance only presages the glorious triumph of the law of Spirit over the resistance of the spurious law of material belief.
In the redemptive and healing ministry of Christian Science, the seeming cause of sin, disease, and death is attacked, and the objective of Christian Science practice is to destroy this cause—and, therefore, its effects—conclusively. Medical practice deals primarily with the effects of sin and false belief on human minds and bodies and is only incidentally concerned with cause, as this term is understood in Christian Science. Therefore medical practice meets with no resistance or outcry from mortal mind, because the foundations of evil remain undisturbed as a result of medical ministrations. However, when Christian Science healing is employed, error foresees its own complete obliteration, and there is apparent commotion.
It is not uncommon for the healer in Christian Science to find himself beset with aggressive, vigorous pleas of mortal mind, which in one way or another sound familiar, such age-old distress signals as: "Let us alone" (Luke 4:34), and, "I beseech thee, torment me not" (Luke 8:28).
