Reply To: Cast Out

[JPalmer]

Thank you for these posts.

I just found this in Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Precepts by Gilbert Carpenter, and it seems a pertinent addition here:

The practice of Christian Science is a highly dangerous profession, since the practitioner is daily confronted by sick folks who have such a conviction of the seriousness of their afflictions, which are supported by the evidence of the senses, that, if the healer becomes careless or too mentally lazy to reject and challenge every illusion that attempts to fasten itself upon him, so that he acknowledges its existence, he may find himself partaking of the same error! It is plain, therefore, why Mrs. Eddy did not want the students to fall a victim to the error…by looking at it, “talking about it, thinking it over, and how to meet it,” as we read on page 130 of Miscellaneous Writings, since she says that this “has the same power to make you a sinner that acting thus regarding disease has to make a man sick.”

It has become increasingly clear to me that if I fail to meet a claim at first, it will come to me aggressively soon after. Where but here would I be learning about this, and how to properly handle it? What a blessing to be a member of this church! Thank you!