CHRISTIAN SCIENCE reveals God's thoughts to mankind. Elucidating the teaching of Christ Jesus, it brings to light the things of God. Christian Science practice consists in mentally reflecting God's thinking in our thoughts until through this thought process all in human experience which does not come from God shall be destroyed. Christian Science practice is simple and straight in Principle and rule, yet vast in scope when applied to human affairs. One with Christlikeness, clean and direct in purpose and in method, this spiritually right thinking seeks out and uncovers in its progress every hidden source of sin and disease. Clear to the mind of a child because based upon Truth, Christian Science practice is yet adequate to undo intriguing sin and stubborn disease. With the infinite God as its source, it must be found equal to all finite needs; it must in the course of salvation throughout the ages sweep earth clean of every unholy thought and thing.
Because Christian Science practice is the constant effort to know God as He is and to reduce to nothing through applied spiritual law all that is unlike God, its results are logically the direct manifestation of God with men. Christian Science properly practised means "God with us" in daily life. This practice is in its infancy, however, and while it is appearing and is little by little working out its ends in the affections of men, until the whole and perfect practice shall be realized, there is much to be learned in the detail of its application to individual affairs. The adherents of Christian Science are striving in their several ways to live the simple truth they see—making frequent mistakes, learning in hard ways, perhaps, and possibly even departing momentarily or for a season from the truth they know; yet trying better than before they knew Christian Science to understand God and to live in nearness to Him.
It is here, in the human effort to approximate obedience to Truth, that complexities occur. The simple rules of Christian Science are sufficient for its demonstration; it is the student himself who is involved, roundabout, confused, perhaps prejudiced or reluctant or rebellious in his own adjustment to the demands of the Word of God. And it is just here, where Christian Science concerns the course of daily living, that two aspects of the situation need to be considered: the personal integrity and purity necessary if Christian Science is to be understood and lived at all; the wisdom and righteousness to be acquired in our relations to our fellow men if Christian Science is to be properly practised.
