Article July 18, 1942 Issue

Progressive Demonstration

ROBERT J. HIGHLAND

It is customary among students of Christian Science to refer to its successful application to human problems as demonstration; that is, they demonstrate the available power of divine Mind, thus displacing the illusion of material discord with the fact of spiritual harmony. Belief in a material existence is not at once wholly overcome, but demonstration, step by step, destroys various phases of the illusion.

On page 277 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy says, "Nothing we can say or believe regarding matter is immortal, for matter is temporal and is therefore a mortal phenomenon, a human concept, sometimes beautiful, always erroneous." It follows that, even though he believes that he possess so-called physical health, material wealth, and joyous human companionship, the student of Christian Science must continue to apply the rules of divine Principle until the belief in existence as material, however beautiful and harmonious it may appear to be, is displaced by the spiritual sense of being.

Jesus admonished, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Christian Scientists rejoice in the assurance that as they advance towards the kingdom of heaven, which Mrs. Eddy defines in Science and Health (p. 590) as "the reign of harmony in divine Science; the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is supreme," they are traveling a road of increasing understanding of God and man.

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