The metaphysical healing system of Christian Science exacts of its practitioner moral rectitude, purity of thought, as a prerequisite to its successful practice. Indeed, it should be said that spiritual goodness, as exemplified by Christ Jesus in thought, word, and act, must characterize the life of one who would offer himself as a practitioner of Christian Science. It takes spiritual goodness in the practitioner to sustain his patient's confidence in the healing power of God and to demonstrate that power.
To be a truly successful practitioner of Christian Science, one must be completely involved in his work. That is to say, his whole life must conform to good, to what is spiritually real. One's practice of Christian Science, unlike one's engaging in a business or profession for eight hours a day and then laying it aside until the next day, is not detached from the practitioner's general life and view of people and things.
To illustrate. One can be a highly successful banker but, apart from the necessity of observing banking procedures strictly, express little goodness or spirituality. He can display great charm and still be madly ambitious, selfish, deceitful, greedy, immoral. Although conforming to the rules of his occupation, he may not necessarily be totally committed to a life of moral rectitude.
