ONE who loves the seashore has surely noticed that a high wave meeting a great rock gives out a terrible booming sound. But the same wave passing the rock and being met by a gentle slope of sand sings softly as it foams its way forward. One who has awakened to the surf's symphonic sounds can never become one who has not heard them. The change in one's concept of the seashore is permanent.
One who asks for treatment in Christian Science does so because he is not noticing some important harmony of his existence as God's idea. In the true idea of God there is perfect health. Not understanding this fact in its fullness, one may believe health to be absent in a particular instance. He says he is sick. Being interested in regaining a sense of good health through knowing more of himself as an idea of divine Mind, he asks for treatment in Christian Science.
The practitioner understands that what the patient needs to know is not material but spiritual. God is Spirit, and man is His spiritual image. The consciousness of one who honestly seeks help by spiritual means is already acknowledging in a degree that reality is spiritual. He is therefore ready to respond to spiritual truths expressed by the practitioner.
