THE Master promised that the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father would send in his name, would teach us all things and bring to our remembrance all things which Christ Jesus taught his apostles. Christ Jesus epitomized in his life and teachings the Science of being, and told us this was the door through which we must enter. He taught in parables, and when his disciples came to him one day and asked, "Why speakest thou unto them in parables?" he answered, "Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given." He had encountered resistance to his word, perversion of his teaching, and he said, "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." But to his disciples he said, "Blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear."
This seeing and hearing is spiritual discernment and perception, and it comes to us to-day as we attain spiritual sense through the study of our textbooks, the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and as we put their teachings into practice in our daily lives. Merely to talk Christian Science, getting the theory and the letter of it, is not living it, neither is one's talking on this subject a proof that he is truly thinking it. If we are really thinking in absolutely scientific terms of God and man, we may talk in a way that would be understood by one on the plane of material belief, and at the same time be transforming the world, healing the sick, and saving the sinner.
Consistent right thinking proves that the divine is governing the human. It is the law of God in human consciousness, silently revolutionizing the world; it is the light shining in darkness, and the uncomprehending darkness disappearing before it; it is reality displacing unreality; it is the consciousness of true spirituality conquering materiality; the kingdom of Love at hand, and God's presence acknowledged. The student of Christian Science, preaching the gospel in this silent way, is being trained into an accurate scientific method of thought which will surprise him in the mental mastery gained and in the fruitful results obtained. The habit of mixing what might be called Science talk with the ordinary things of the day in the casual meeting with our fellows, is too often a slipshod expression of thought which halts rapid growth and quick work. It is demoralizing to our own accuracy in metaphysics to talk mixed metaphysics to a non-student of metaphysics, and it is equally unwise if not foolish to talk to such a one in terms of absolute Science.
