"To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth" (John 18:37). This superb answer of Christ Jesus' to Pilate's question, "Art thou a king?" set forth the great spiritual objective for all Christendom. Those who would follow the Master must accept as their supreme and only aim the holy mission of bearing witness to Truth.
Many today still echo Pilate's return question to Jesus, "What is truth?" but to thousands Christian Science has brought a satisfactory answer through Mary Baker Eddy's revelation of Truth as a synonym for God. The name Truth may be said to denote especially the unerring, invariable nature of Deity. Therefore it is seen that only what proceeds from and expresses the nature and character of God, Truth, is actually true and real. This places mortal mind with its frailty, inharmony, and sin in the category of the unreal, or illusory. Likewise matter, being variable and destructible, is classified as a counterfeit of true substance, or reality—Spirit.
Sounder morals, better health, and an altogether richer and fuller life are experienced as reality progressively unfolds in human consciousness. This improved state of human existence is the natural proof of progress Spiritward, but is not in itself the objective of the Scientist, who seeks Truth for Truth's sake. He consecrates his thought and dedicates his life to the demonstration of spiritual perfection, which dissolves the false mortal consciousness, with its discordant states, and permits the reality of being to appear.
