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1990 ~ 7 Pages ~ BEGINNING RIGHTLY ~ Mrs. Eddy tells us, "To begin rightly is to end rightly." (S&H 262:28 only) And that's what I'd like to talk to you about this morning - "Beginning Rightly." In our prayers and in our treatments, from which premise do we begin? Spirit, or matter?

Mortal mind presents its material claims of disease and discord and lack to all mankind, it seems. And since most of the world is ignorantly deceived into accepting these material sense pictures as "instant reality," they undertake to heal them in the only way they know - material1y. But almost the first thing a student of Christian Science learns is that we do not, in the practice of this Science, use material means for healing. Gradually, we come to understand something of why we don't, and how we turn to spiritual means alone. This premise in the solution is pretty generally accepted among Scientists. Most Scientists believe in using metaphysics, and using it alone. Not to mix it. But there is one vitally important area where all too often we go astray. Any experienced Christian Science practitioner will tell you that nine out of ten patients come wanting metaphysical help, but to do what? To heal a material body, a material situation - through spiritual means.