Earnest seekers after Truth today are more insistent than ever upon finding a demonstrable religion. They will be satisfied only with teachings which require and empower practical proof of their statements. Christian Science measures up to this requirement, for it is healing the sin, disease, and suffering of men in every form. Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer of the Science of eternal Life which Jesus practiced, has written in her book, "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 178), "This Science is the essence of religion, distilled in the laboratory of infinite Love and prepared for all peoples."
The physical scientist labors with untiring patience in his laboratory in the interests of what is called natural science. With equal devotion may the Christian Scientist work to understand and prove the allness of Spirit. He will give acceptance only to positive spiritual truth, absolute facts, divine realities. Every step in his work will be a proven position, a solved problem, steps of progress that cannot be reversed because based on the eternal laws of perfection. Through his investigations and demonstrations of Truth he will help the whole world to know reality; and as he stands at the threshold of Love's laboratory, he will want to pray, as did David of old, "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law."
The inspired Christian Scientist gladly accepts, and earnestly seeks to satisfy, the requirements of his profession. These include the consecrated study of the law of God and complete obedience thereto. Not a mere theoretic idealist, but a practical prover of the Word of God, his work is positive, buoyant, and successful. Accepting the axiom that there is no error in reality, he is not bent on discovering causes for error, but on demonstrating the infinite cause, God, good. Constantly living Christ's way of salvation, as well as teaching it and healing with it, he develops a necessary ability to discern thought scientifically. In disposing of error, or demonstrating harmony, he begins with the truth of being, basing arguments and conclusions on the basis of spirituality and not on matter. With reverence and joy he becomes aware of the omnipresence of good, and finds nothing more satisfying than the vanquishment of evil through the understanding of its unreality.
