Article April 10, 1926 Issue

Demonstration

HARRIET M. IREY

The law of God, understood and rightly applied, will annihilate all forms of error known to the so-called human mind. Through the understanding and demonstration of this law, sin, sickness, and death must flee. The Christian Science student, who is waiting and watching for the unfoldment of Truth, does not fear what some form of error is threatening to do to him, but rather is he knowing the unreality of evil and its powerlessness to attack the work of God's hand. For God's image and likeness, which is the only real creation, must be demonstrated here and now. The watchful student at the same time is careful that he in no way becomes a channel through which error may operate.

When we see a student rising higher in demonstration, it is our privilege to profit by the work he has done. Thoughts of envy, jealousy, and ingratitude have not been given place in the consciousness of that student, else he would not have risen as he has done. We know, too, that our ingratitude for the good he has proved tends to separate us from him; but it cannot stop his work. Each child of God, reflecting Him, is rightly filling his place now.

The opportunity to demonstrate this great truth lies at our door. It matters not where we may be, we can reflect divine Life, that one and only Life which is God. "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose." By radiating truth we are able to heal those who ask for our help. And doing so we are ready to rise still higher in demonstration. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 210) our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says: "Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited." And in the Scriptures we read, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."

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