The progressive Christian Scientist finds the study of everything pertaining to spiritual being absorbing and rewarding. He can say with Paul, "I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God." A dictionary defines "pertinent" as "properly bearing upon the matter in hand; relevant. . . ."
What, to the Christian Scientist, is "the matter in hand"? It is seeing the redemptive power of Christ, Truth, triumph over apparently perplexing human problems. It is keeping the glory of God aglow in his consciousness.
Exposing the unreality of a "knowledge of both good and evil," Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health, p. 103) "On the other hand, Mind-science is wholly separate from any half-way impertinent knowledge, because Mind-science is of God and demonstrates the divine Principle, working out the purposes of good only." The Christian Scientist's endeavor is to keep his consciousness free from all impertinent, irrelevant, material knowledge. If a speculative and doubtful train of thought should tempt him to stray from true witnessing, he must resist it, for if he were to follow it up it would be a hindrance to him in "working out the purposes of good only."
