Editorial October 24, 1931 Issue

The Demands upon Us

Duncan Sinclair

We may readily acknowledge God to be infinite, the only power, the only cause. We may readily acknowledge Him to be omnipresent and omniscient Mind or Spirit. We may readily admit that He is infinite Love, Life, Truth, good. We may do all these things; but what about admitting the conclusions which logically follow therefrom? Moreover, in the light of the truth that God is infinite Spirit, we may acknowledge that matter is unreal; and in the light of the truth that God is infinite good, that evil is unreal; but if we go no farther than merely acknowledging intellectually these facts, we have not gone nearly far enough—we are not fulfilling the demands which our acknowledgments make upon us.

On page 233 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes: "Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power. These proofs consist solely in the destruction of sin, sickness, and death by the power of Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them." Here are clearly stated the demands upon us as Christian Scientists: "higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power" are required of us. We must not only acknowledge God as Christian Science declares Him to be, but we must also demonstrate our knowledge of spiritual power by overcoming the false belief that matter or evil is real, through the destruction of sin, disease, and death.

From the moment Mrs. Eddy discovered Christian Science she saw the necessity of proving what one knows of Truth by healing; and she persisted in keeping this necessity before her followers. The result was the establishing of a church—the Church of Christ, Scientist—whose members are engaged in the practice of healing sin and disease by an entirely spiritual method. For over half a century this method has been successfully used, with the result that Christian Science is now known throughout the world as a healing religion. It is true to say that its many churches have been the direct result of the innumerable healings which have taken place through the spiritual understanding which a study of this Science gives.

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