Christian Science sounds a clarion call to spiritual warfare that should rouse the thinkers of the day.
In the sixth chapter of Ephesians, Paul describes the armor and method of spiritual warfare. This warfare, he says, is "not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 29): "Christians must take up arms against error at home and abroad. They must grapple with sin in themselves and in others, and continue this warfare until they have finished their course."
It behooves every student of Christian Science to heed these words and to examine the state of his preparedness as a soldier of Christ. Let each one ask himself, Am I proving myself to be an active church member by manifesting hourly more of the qualities of God, by my daily study of the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, and by endeavoring to practice Christian Science healing? Awake to the need for true sentinels in the world today, the alert Christian Scientist is strengthening the citadel of his thinking. He knows that his consciousness is the battleground wherein he must fight and win the conflict between good and evil. Here, indeed, is true spiritual warfare.
