IT is a glorious thing to know the truth! To know the truth is to know God and His Christ; it is to know His glory, majesty, power, goodness, loving care, and protection. To know the truth is to see Truth, even as our Master, Christ Jesus, promised: "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God." The pure, spiritually-minded, envision "the deep things of God." In multitudinous regenerative ways they see His healing and saving grace in human experience.
Owing to the denseness of material blindness to spiritual facts, materialists grope in the dark and ask now, as did Pilate of yore, "What is truth?" As if in answer to that question, grateful beneficiaries at the Wednesday evening testimony meetings in Christian Science churches bear joyful and enthusiastic witness to the truth, in many instances declaring, "I knew the truth, as we are taught in Christian Science." And they continue with a recital of healings resulting from knowing the truth and denying discordant, false conditions that apparently confronted them.
Knowing the truth about God, man, and the universe means gaining knowledge of that which is spiritually true. Consecrated study of the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, together with the wonderfully helpful Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, reading the Christian Science periodicals, faithful attendance at the church services— all of these are highly important in acquiring pure, accurate knowledge of God and man. The study of the Bible and of the teachings of absolute Christian Science is true education, spiritual enlightenment. Of such education, our Leader has said succinctly (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, . 252), "The entire purpose of true education is to make one not only know the truth but live it—to make one enjoy doing right, make one not work in the sunshine and run away in the storm, but work amidst clouds of wrong, injustice, envy, hate; and wait on God, the strong deliverer, who will reward righteousness and punish iniquity."
