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Christian Science nursing is more than an occupation, profession, or career. It is a ministry of unselfed love, the love that is the reflection of divine Love.

Nothing speeds progress like right decision. Human thought, consciously or not, is engaged in a twenty-four-hour-a-day game of true or false—of sifting, sorting, choosing.

From his perfect origin in God, man is the reflection of divine Life. Each of us is a divine conception, an idea of God.

Do you consider the responsibilities of a church treasurer mainly depositing collections in a bank, issuing checks to pay bills, posting records, and submitting reports? Far more is involved. A worthy steward fortifies these functions with potent and clear thinking about supply.

Sometimes a Christian Scientist may become discouraged if he or she is making little headway as a healer. The lack of progress may be hard to understand.

Before Jesus healed the helpless man at the pool of Bethesda, he asked him the simple, forthright question, "Wilt thou be made whole?" John 5:6; From the point of view of Christian Science there are several implied meanings in this brief query. It might be restated in several ways: Are you willing to accept the simple truths of divine Science in contradiction of tradition and treasured beliefs and opinions? Are you willing to accept the fact that God, the divine Mind, made man in His own likeness and governs him as surely as He does the universe? That there is no birth nor death for man because man made in His likeness is therefore spiritual, eternal? That God saw every detail of what He had made, and it was very good? That if it is not good, God did not make it, and consequently it does not exist at all in reality but only appears to illusory mortal mind to be real, although it remains an illusion? The invalid answered Jesus, "Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

I once heard a music student discussing an assignment to write a musical composition and orchestrate it. A Christian Scientist, he said that he "just removed himself and sat back and let God do all the work.

The status of divine creation is perfection. God's work is done.

With consummate artistry the contralto sang the moving spiritual, "Lit'l Boy, How Ole Are You?" This refrain receives the repeated response, "Sir, I'm only twelve years old. " The dialogue refers of course to the experience of the child Jesus in the temple at Jerusalem.

A young man went into the full-time practice of Christian Science healing. One day when he answered a new patient's knock at the door, she took a surprised look at him and asked, "Is your father in?" The young practitioner smiled and replied, "Yes, my Father is in, but I'm the practitioner!" That young practitioner realized that God, his Father, was the healer.