Is thought startled at this question? Surely the individual Christian Scientist, if asked directly, would reply without hesitation: "All of it. I know it is the truth." And, to the best of his belief, that would be a correct answer. However, an examination into the subject will reveal to us how often we fall short of even such acceptance as we are capable of, and that we must ever rouse ourselves to greater and more practical receptivity. Finally, we must learn to act more boldly, accepting this Science wholly, unequivocally, and expecting great achievements in the present now.
On page 249 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Let us accept Science, relinquish all theories based on sense-testimony, give up imperfect models and illusive ideals; and so let us have one God, one Mind, and that one perfect, producing His own models of excellence." Does she not here imply that accepting Science involves also the relinquishment of sense-testimony, material theories, imperfect models, and the acknowledgment of but one God, one Mind, as our God, our Mind? This acceptance and relinquishment should be a present process to which we devote our thought in ever greater degree.
Suppose someone has a pressing, stubborn problem? How much is he willing to relinquish of false belief about it, and how much of this Science is he willing to accept positively, finally, so that error's arguments no longer are heard? The answer determines whether the healing shall be slow or quick, and the individual's life be one of continued slavery to sense or of divine dominion.
