The sword

Mary Baker Eddy makes this very clear in her article "PUT UP THY SWORD."I There she points out that mortal mind tends to move from one extreme to the other. The more immature and inexperienced the student of Christian Science is, the more that student is tempted to adopt an extreme standpoint because they did not work out the first and preliminary steps in the line of development. She warns: "But let us not seek to climb up some other way, as we shall do if we take the end for the beginning or start from wrong motives. Christian Science demands order and truth .... "My students are at the beginning of their demonstration; they have a long warfare with error in themselve and in others to finish, and they must at this stage use the sword of Spirit. ... They cannot in the beginning take the attitude, nor adopt the words, that Jesus used at the end of his demonstration." This article ends with the promise of attaining a Sabbath rest, in which we have to first do our work in order to come to that rest.