Nothing will more quickly develop one's capacity to give good Christian Science treatments than to actually give them, and to keep on giving them. The more consistently one maintains a conscious unity with God, perfect divine Mind, and persistently applies this true sense to the varied problems of human life, the quicker he will become an effective practitioner of this Science.
And no one need say that he has no patients to treat—not when he takes a look at the world around him! Students of Christian Science who are hard at work heading for the public practice should bear this in mind. They may be longing to try their wings if only someone would come along and ask for help. But the opportunities to help and heal are multitudinous. For example, The Christian Science Monitor is constantly alerting its readers to disturbing conditions, great and small, that call for instant specific metaphysical treatment. If, when reading the news, one responds alertly to each challenge as it meets his eye —that is, as he denounces it as a powerless hypnotic illusion and with conviction affirms the positive spiritual counter fact— he is contributing to a harmonious solution.
Thus one becomes a practitioner for the world, and by utilizing in this way what one now knows of the truth of God and man he is growing in spiritual stature and fitting himself to cope with and heal the cases of individual sickness and lack that will come to him as a public practitioner of Christian Science. The old saw "practice makes perfect" surely applies when preparing for the healing ministry. Although this healing work demands of one a high order of love and self-discipline, it is the happiest and most satisfying work in the world. Mrs. Eddy writes of Christian Science healing: "Every man and every woman would desire and demand it, if he and she knew its infinite value and firm basis. The unerring and fixed Principle of all healing is God; and this Principle should be sought from the love of good, from the most spiritual and unselfish motives. Then it will be understood to be of God, and not of man."Miscellaneous Writings, p. 232;
