Christian Science rejects all evidence of the material senses. It acknowledges only the testimony of Spirit. It declares that God alone governs His spiritual creation. He also rules in all human affairs. Nebuchadnezzar stated this fact when he said (Dan. 4:35), "He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?" And Mary Baker Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 379), "The real jurisdiction of the world is in Mind, controlling every effect and recognizing all causation as vested in divine Mind."
It is the work of the Christian Scientist to recognize and maintain daily that every individual and all that the individual can know—home, business, church, government, and, indeed, the entire universe—are in reality constituted only of spiritual ideas. It is the duty of the Christian Scientist to reverse material concepts and find the spiritual truth of whatever the material senses present. Only what God knows and sees is true; therefore spiritual concepts and spiritual facts are the only realities.
Take, for example, a home, a church, or a business. Let each one associated with it pray daily to gain an ever clearer spiritual concept of it. Let him maintain that in its true being it is sustained and governed by good alone. What takes place as this is done? Improved human conditions result; progress is made, and true success is achieved.
