God as a subject of conversation ought to be one that is easy, natural, and frequent. Picture two commuters on the way home from business relating unembarrassedly in conversational tones that might be overheard what God had done for them that day. Conversations about God are not rare with Christian Scientists, who have found a familiarity with Him to be happifying, harmonizing, and health-bestowing.
Why should we not talk about God as easily and as naturally as we speak on any-other subject? Similarly, we should think on and speak about the things of Spirit as easily as we do the minutiae of human existence. The reason this is not more frequently done can be explained in two words: spiritual ignorance. The lexicographers and others of various degrees of enlightened human thought generally accept the word Spirit as referring to that which is abstract, shadowy, fleeting, indeed indefinable, and more often to that which belongs to the hereafter, a subject about which there is a great reluctance to think because of its association with death.
Mary Baker Eddy in elucidating her discovery of Christian Science employs the word Spirit as one of the names for God, and she uses this term interchangeably with others, among which is the word Truth. She also refers to Spirit as substance because of its indestructible nature. Universally, matter and material objects are accepted as substance, and therefore as reality; whereas matter, because of its insubstantial, discordant, and destructible nature, is defined by Christian Science as mortal illusion, or error. Briefly stated in the light of Christian Science, Spirit means Truth; matter means error or discord, and on this basis of reasoning all mystery and vagueness as to the word Spirit vanishes, and it becomes to the student of Christian Science one of the terms for Deity.
