Those in the healing practice of Christian Science who have had baby cases sometimes find that when the time comes for delivery, forces seem to work in both directions at once. The result is labor. But eliminate belief in an opposing force and the birth is effortless.
The hour has surely arrived for the spiritual idea we know as Christian Science to be born to the whole world and accepted as its cherished own. Those who know enough of Christian Science to practice it consistently have before them the opportunity to bring forth this spiritual idea. The world needs it, and as the resistance is overcome the new idea will be received with joy and love.
To overcome the resistance, the one attending a birth needs first to recognize and to eliminate his own resistance to the spiritual nature of what is going on. To the degree he is clear in his own thought that his place in attending the birth is not that of a mortal treating another mortal but a spiritual idea acknowledging and adoring the infinite Mind and the manifestation of that Mind, he is able to detect and to dissolve what appears to resist a harmonious birth. A key problem in presenting Christian Science to the world, therefore, is how to identify ourselves as ideas, spiritual, not material.
