Students of Christian Science prove its truths in different ways. One individual may find liberation from a physical ill as he discerns man's God-given dominion of good. Another may find freedom from limitation as he realizes that God alone governs man. But everyone must work from the basic truth that since God, Spirit, is the only creator, man does not live in matter, is not active in matter, is not sustained by matter. Man is an idea of God, without one material constituent.
A practitioner once said to a student when the mists of physical sense testimony refused to dissolve: "For some years you have been accepting the truths of Christian Science. The time has come for you to acknowledge them. Go home and study the Tenets of Christian Science at the end of the chapter on Recapitulation in 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,' which Mary Baker Eddy has given to the world."
Acting on this advice, the student began a consecrated study of the Tenets and found that in them Mrs. Eddy uses the word "acknowledge" six times. The student was dismayed to find out in what small measure she was obeying the second of these Tenets, which begins (p. 497), "We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God." Personal sense with its material desires, its senseless ambitions, its deification of self, was more in the ascendant in consciousness than the one supreme and infinite God.
