Article September 6, 1941 Issue

Improving by Proving

ANNA E. HERZOG

That which is real and eternal cannot be improved, but the proving of Truth always means improvement in human affairs. Thus the great need is to know, apply, and demonstrate Truth in daily life.

Speaking of herself as author of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy says on page 127 of that textbook: "The terms Divine Science, Spiritual Science, Christ Science or Christian Science, or Science alone, she employs interchangeably, according to the requirements of the context. These synonymous terms stand for everything relating to God, the infinite, supreme, eternal Mind. It may be said, however, that the term Christian Science relates especially to Science as applied to humanity."

Thus, if we are acknowledging divine Science as the absolute fact concerning God and man and universe, and yet not applying its rules to human needs, Science remains to us an abstraction as far as daily living is concerned. If Science is not utilized for the improvement of human conditions, this is because it is not understood. With the eloquence of an orator we may discuss Science, but if we do not, by means of it, allay fear, correct character, heal disease, comfort sorrow, and destroy the thousand and one daily errors which confront us, we are not applying Christian Science.

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