SPIRITUAL loyalty is a conscientious and trustworthy living of the spiritual facts of being. It is not enough merely to be acquainted with the truth. One must be actively loyal to it.
How shall the individual Christian Scientist measure his active spiritual loyalty? How shall he express it? In what ways shall it be made manifest in his life? Mrs. Eddy gives a pointed answer to these questions when she writes in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 50), "By loyalty in students I mean this,—allegiance to God, subordination of the human to the divine, steadfast justice, and strict adherence to divine Truth and Love."
One dictionary definition of "allegiance" is "devotion or loyalty to that which is entitled to obedience or service and respect." Allegiance to God is synonymous with a spiritual understanding of Him, for he who truly knows God cannot help being allegiant to Him. Jesus declared clearly what it is that places scientific Christianity above all blindly believing religious efforts when he said to the woman at the well (John 4:22), "Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship."
