In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 254): "During the sensual ages, absolute Christian Science may not be achieved prior to the change called death, for we have not the power to demonstrate what we do not understand. But the human self must be evangelized. This task God demands us to accept lovingly to-day, and to abandon so fast as practical the material, and to work out the spiritual which determines the outward and actual." This evangelization is the objective for which conscientious students of Christian Science strive.
The human mind, believing itself to be an entity separate from divine Mind, God, attempts to uphold and to prove true its own mistaken sense of things, its foibles and fears. When we are tempted to justify our human opinions, is it not personal sense, with its love of self, that is seeking to establish its mythical existence? As there is in reality but one Mind, the efforts to enthrone another mind are futile.
Have we sometimes been tempted to resent the difficulties that have appeared in our human experience, and have we perhaps cried out, "Do I have to have constant battles with error in order to progress?" The answer to this question is certainly No. Progress without pain is of course the ideal way; but if we have not sufficiently heeded divine wisdom to avoid the unhappy experiences, if moral obliquity has temporarily obscured our true identity as the man of God's creating, we can be grateful for the knocking at the door of our consciousness that says in effect: "Wake up. Know thyself as God's perfect reflection."
