Article November 24, 1945 Issue

What Is True Demonstration?

BESSIE MAY TEOREY

Our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, gives us the perfect recipe for demonstration when she writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 4), "We reach the Science of Christianity through demonstration of the divine nature." This statement should arouse the reader to see that material things or conditions cannot be demonstrated by spiritual means. Then to attempt to demonstrate anything other than a spiritual effect by spiritual means would result in failure.

The premise of the Science of Christianity is that God, Spirit, Mind, is All-in-all; hence He is the only power, presence, and intelligence. Man being the reflection or expression of this infinite Spirit or Mind, is as perfect as his creator. Evidence or proof of this fact is true demonstration.

Mortals reasoning from the false premise that man is material, with a mind of his own, separated from good, try every known method to gain release from the resulting inharmony. They sometimes misuse the truths of Christian Science, thinking to heal an inharmonious situation, the outcome of material-mindedness, without doing anything to the erroneous thinking that is causing the discord. They strive by any and all means to get what they think is outside of themselves, such as happiness, health, home, protection, companionship, and the like. They attempt to take the kingdom of heaven by storm, but of course failure is inevitable, for Christ Jesus said this kingdom is within us. In other words, he implied that because man is the perfect expression of divine Mind, infinite good, his divine nature includes everything necessary to express the glory of God. Someone once wrote that one could not have the sun in his lap and not have light. Just so we cannot express the divine nature, which is now and ever will be our true being, and not have the kingdom of God in our experience.

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