To "stand for principle" is a phrase often heard as indicative of the most commendable motive upon which action can be based. In so far as the implication is to place right above personal consideration, it is indeed worthy. To be broadly efficacious in human experience, however, to stand for Principle requires a correct understanding of the nature and scope thereof, as well as of the rules which underlie practical application. Otherwise, its value to mankind will be extremely limited.
Christian Science alone offers a full, correct, and demonstrable knowledge of Principle. To its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, goes the credit for first emphasizing God as Principle. On page 465 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she answers the question, "What is God?" as follows: "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love."
Upon the basis of the Biblical statement that "all things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made," Christian Science teaches that matter or evil does not exist as a reality, but is a supposititious belief objectified in human experience. The purpose of Christian Science is to arouse human thought from contemplation of such belief to the understanding and demonstration of Life as Spirit and wholly good. Evil must, therefore, be seen and demonstrated as unreal.
