Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away: behold, all things are become new. 2 Cor. v: 17.
THE growth from the darkness and inactivity of mortal sense into the consciousness of the ever-presence of God that prompts man to resist evil, rather than to blindly follow its mandates, will enable all to understand the Word of Life as contained in the Scripture. And understanding based upon demonstration, is the infallible proof of its truthfulness as manifested in Scientifically overcoming in our daily lives the claim of the ever-presence of evil. This understanding demonstrated, establishes us more firmly on the Rock. "The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner." Upon this Rock the Master declared to Peter, he should found his church; and that flesh and blood should not prevail against it. "But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon, for other foundation can no man lay, than is laid which is Jesus Christ." The only structure that can be legally built thereupon is revealed through Science And Health,— the key to the Scriptures. The completion of this structure can only be attained through self-denial, faith and constant warfare against the natural man, or that sense of error which seeks to exalt itself against the omnipotence of Spirit. This we designate as demonstration, or conscious dominion over all manner of discord, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The path our Master trod must be the choice of all who would have the protection of him that ruleth Israel; and in this strait and narrow way all may follow, if thus governed. Strict adherence to the radical line of action our Master followed throughout his ministry,— and which has been simplified for this age by our Teacher, Rev. Mary B. G. Eddy, in her spiritual interpretation of his sayings and teachings,— will enable us to build according to the plan of the divine architect. The idolizing of Jesus' material condition and human personality, exalting it above all possible imitation by mortal man, leaving no rationalistic conception of the sense in which he was the way-shower to man's true inheritance, has been the chilling, hopeless, and dead interpretation of the Master's purpose and mission. "But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ," who has opened our understanding, this impractical teaching is seen to be the voice of error,— the darkness that calleth itself light.
