Christian Science teaches the reality of the spiritual Kingdom and the unreality of the material. Has not this heretofore been a stumbling block in all our thinking and living? We have made such a reality of everything material, and this too in direct contradiction of the evident teachings of Scripture, that we have failed to get a realization of spiritual Truth. In a word, we have not given the Scriptures a true spiritual interpretation.
"He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life." (1 John 5: 12.) How can we let our light "shine before men" if we have not Life? "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." (Gal. 5: 25.)
Spiritual power is what many have been striving to attain, and, it would seem, with but poor success. It has been thought that there were two powers always warring against each other, but now, in the nineteenth century comes Christian Science to reveal the Truth to those who are willing to see it, who are willing to accept it, who are willing to live it, who are willing to be made "new creatures," who are willing to become "Sons of God," who are willing to "walk, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." And how are we to do this? By putting down self and all false personality, by realizing that it is unreal, by knowing and understanding that "God is all."
