There is no higher calling upon earth than to be a Christian Scientist. There is no greater demand upon the Christian Scientist than that he live the teachings of this Science. All spiritual good that has become understood by mankind generally has been made evident by the lives of those who in some measure have proved the presence and power of God.
In Bible times there were scores of individuals who lived according to God's law and whose lives stand as beacons on a hill because of their fidelity to Principle. Truth was so clear in the consciousness of Abraham that it unfolded and revealed itself distinctly, so distinctly that it appeared to human apprehension as God talking with him. Moses' life was one of increasing spiritual growth. The voice of Truth unfolded to him in the Ten Commandments, the strongest spiritual declarations up to that time, setting forth the laws by which men should live. Elijah lived so close to God that his human experience culminated in the sublime event of his being translated without seeing death. Isaiah prophesied the coming of the Messiah, as did Moses and Micah. To discern the forthcoming and clearer appearing of the Christ to human thought these men lived the truth, and the discernment of Truth's appearing became natural to their spiritually enlightened consciousness.
Christ Jesus so lived his declaration (John 10:30), "I and my Father are one," that his entire life was one of demonstrating the supremacy of Spirit over every phase of error. He is the one individual who demonstrated every spiritual truth he uttered. He maintained dominion over sin, disease, and death on the basis of his demonstrated spirituality. Jesus' example illustrated the fact that divinity must be manifested in human experience if there is to be any genuine improvement in the human realm. The Master forestalled the possibility that mankind would thwart the necessity of growing out of itself and yielding to man's true spiritual selfhood as the child of God.
