Some readers may be so conscious of the limits of their demonstration of Christian Science to date that they would prefer to be called students of Christian Science rather than Christian Scientists. This view reflects a healthy recognition of the great requirements involved in the practice of Christian Science, and it impels us to inquire further about what is needed to really earn the name "Christian Scientist."
How can we become better Christian Scientists? Every page of Mrs. Eddy's writings bears on this question. Perhaps one of the most helpful specific approaches is to think about the meaning and interrelation of the two words that express what we want to be: Christian Scientists. To take these words in their usual meaning, and apart from each other, would give us only a limited sense of their significance. We do want to be more Christian, but in a far larger sense than the doctrines of orthodox Christianity would suggest. Likewise, we want to be more scientific, but, again, in a broader sense than worldly thought entertains. Only in the light of divine Science itself do we see what the words "Christian" and "Scientist" really mean and how they interrelate and, therefore, what is specifically required of us to become better Christian Scientists.
As we deepen our understanding of these words in the light of divine Science, we find that the requirements they imply are mutually reinforcing aspects of the same process of demonstration. Without the pure revelation of divine Science we have nothing to demonstrate; and without the impetus of pure Christianity we have not the wherewithal to make the demonstration. Only through the unification of true Science and true Christianity is demonstration consummated and the spiritual fact brought to light in actual experience. Mrs. Eddy sets forth this point in the clearest terms when she writes, "Science will declare God aright, and Christianity will demonstrate this declaration and its divine Principle, making mankind better physically, morally, and spiritually." Science and Health, p .466;
