If one learns that the sun is the center around which revolve the planets of the solar system, including our earth, he can say to himself, "Isn't that interesting" and go about his business as though he had never heard it. But if one learns that his very substance is Spirit, not matter, he either devotes his life to living the nature of Spirit or he denies what he has learned.
Christian Science points out that Christ Jesus' works illustrated that our true substance is Spirit. He proved the allness and goodness of divine Love and the nothingness of hate, and he showed Love and Spirit to be one, and material belief and hate one. Mrs. Eddy writes: "Let men think they had killed the body! Afterwards he would show it to them unchanged." Science and Health, p. 42; And in her explanation of the Science Jesus taught she gives us "the scientific statement of being," which begins with these words: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."p. 468;
One does not serve the truth of being as he serves a business or fraternal organization or a social system. If one believes it, he lives it as he breathes air knowing that it is air. One who accepts Christian Science as the revelation of Truth should not need to be told that it is his duty to give so many hours a day to the study and practice of his religion. What one actually believes true one practices every waking hour. What else is there to practice? If one actually believes matter has no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance, what is there to strive for but to master the belief that it has and to demonstrate that "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation"?
