Article February 20, 1943 Issue

Individual Demonstration and Salvation

ALICE VANDER HIDEN DAMON

The good which is accomplished in church, society, and government derives from individual demonstration—from the proof in individual experience that divine Principle heals the sick and destroys sin. Such demonstration is the result of prayerful communion with God; of confident affirmation of His omnipotent goodness; of the active denial and rejection of any suggestion of a power apart from Him. Nothing can take the place of this spiritually mental work. The success of the Christian Science Cause, the vitality of its church, are directly dependent on individual understanding and demonstration. Every proof of the truths of Christian Science, however humble, contributes to the strength of the Cause.

Every member of the Church of Christ, Scientist, if he is proving the power of Christian Science in his individual experience by overcoming sickness and sin and witnessing to the beauty of the Christ-spirit, is helping to forward the Christian Science movement. In the stress of human activity incident to church work we need to be alert lest we neglect this individual spiritual demonstration. Rebuking the Pharisees' outward conformity to rules and their neglect of spiritual things, Jesus said, "These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone."

The incalculable influence which Christian Science is exerting on human thinking today is due to the fact that Truth is being proved and utilized individually. Let the earnest worker remember this when he is tempted to believe that his work is ineffectual, that his right thinking is of little avail for mankind.

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