When we think, talk, and pray we use the personal pronouns I, you, he, she, we, they, in their various forms, probably more often than almost any other class of words. Note how often you think and speak the personal pronouns, and you may be surprised at the place they have in your consciousness. We use them to designate the identity of ourself or of someone else. Because true identity is so important to the one who is trying to think with scientific accuracy, he must watch carefully the meaning he consents to give to the personal pronouns. They should increasingly mean to him nothing less than the wholly spiritual, or true, identity of man.
A Christian Scientist uses the personal pronouns in three different ways. First he uses "I" to name his human sense of personality, and other pronouns to name other human personalities. He may say, "I am going to do some errands," and, "You may come with me." The "I," "you," and "me" refer to the mortal sense of selfhood. Used in such ways the personal pronouns have no spiritual meaning. They are used to identify a human concept.
But when the pronoun "me" is used in the Daily Prayer in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy (Art. VIII, Sect. 4). "Let the reign of divine Truth, Life, and Love be established in me and rule out of me all sin," the pronoun refers to a state of human consciousness we call me, in which the false, material sense of self is giving way before the dawn of spiritual being. This is a transitional state of consciousness which is desiring to realize more of the already existing spiritual fact— the reign of God in man. Me thus used refers to a sense of identity wherein some measure of spiritual being is present and more is desired.
