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" Every day make its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power," Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 233 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. " These higher proofs are the progressive demonstration of our spiritual and perfect selfhood, and our Leader further tells us: "These proofs consist solely in the destruction of sin, sickness, and death by the power of Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them.

On more than one occasion Mary Baker Eddy speaks of Christian Science as being the higher criticism. On page 240 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" she explains, "I now repeat another proof, namely, that Christian Science is the higher criticism because it criticizes evil, disease, and death—all that is unlike God, good—on a Scriptural basis, and approves or disapproves according to the word of God.

Christian Science , which brings to mankind an understanding of spiritual reality, defines with scientific exactness the true identity of men and all things. It shows that God is the only cause and creator and reveals that all He creates is good and spiritual.

From one end of the Bible to the other is iterated the truth of God's omnipotent goodness, which shows His ability to keep His creation, including man, healthy, harmonious, and happy, and of His love, which makes Him willing to do so. Over and over again the sacred pages tell us of a God who is good, all-powerful, merciful, gentle, and just; of an intelligence, or Mind, which is the source of all true being and makes all that is made.

Christian Science brings to every field of human endeavor a better and improved concept of activity. This is true for the student and scholar as well as the businessman, the artist, the laborer, and the homemaker.

God as a subject of conversation ought to be one that is easy, natural, and frequent. Picture two commuters on the way home from business relating unembarrassedly in conversational tones that might be overheard what God had done for them that day.

" What you need is a man with you. " This remark was made to a woman whom a few friends were seeing off on a journey to another country about three thousand miles away.

When Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, he brought them to a land of promise, full of good soil and easy harvests, with rivers and green places, and he foresaw that they might become idle and self-satisfied in their prosperity. Do you remember how he warned them of this temptation and reminded them that it was God who had brought them out of difficulties and dangers and had given them prosperity? He warned them that the temptation would come to make them think that they of themselves had done something, and to make them say in their hearts ( Deut.

Once when Jesus was instructing the people, he urged them to labor not for the meat which would perish, but for that meat which endures even to everlasting life. His hearers showed interest, but before they would fully believe, they demanded a sign or proof.

Through the many incidents of answered prayer recorded in the Old and New Testaments we see that prayer is not and cannot be crystallized, but is impelled and characterized by the nature or need of a present situation or condition of thought. It is always a sincere and active seeking of good.