The application of Christian Science to human needs comes about through understanding and proving the government of God. Not by academic means, not by merely intellectual development, not in human modes, is Christian Science demonstrated; but through growing acquaintance with and love for the divine will.
Two important requisites for the practice of Christian Science are humility and spiritual authority. Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 224): "A higher and more practical Christianity, demonstrating justice and meeting the needs of mortals in sickness and in health, stands at the door of this age, knocking for admission. Will you open or close the door upon this angel visitant, who cometh in the quiet of meekness, as he came of old to the patriarch at noonday?"
The follower of Christian Science finds early that he needs humility in order to comprehend the divine authority which knocks always at the door of his heart for admission. It is "in the quiet of meekness" that the presence of God becomes tangible power to him. For new and higher discoveries of the goodness of God there must be a mental turning point, a place of beginning; and it is humility which sets aside pride of opinion, thus opening thought to perceive the revelation brought to the world by Christian Science. Then for the continuing acceptance of this comprehension of reality one must find, and increase in, the great meekness of heart through which the human will and the personal intellect retire before the discovery of the facts of divine Mind.
