Article December 15, 1945 Issue

"Arise and shine"

PATRICK J. HAMBROOK

In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 158), Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has written these arresting words: "The burden of proof that Christian Science is Science rests on Christian Scientists." The words "burden of proof," according to Chambers' Twentieth Century Dictionary, signify an "obligation to establish by evidence certain disputed facts."

Steadfast witnesses to the ever-availability of God's presence and power are greatly needed today. Christian Scientists, therefore, stand on the threshold of a new era, which challenges them to prove by demonstration, in ever-increasing measure and in an ever-widening field, the eternal fact that the Christ heals, saves, and liberates as effectively now as it did in Jesus' time. It is the Christian Scientist's privilege as well as duty to make practical, in ways that mankind can appreciate and understand, the spiritual fact that God is the only presence and power, the only influence in the affairs of men and nations.

In the face of this present-day challenge and the opportunity which is at hand, how are we, as Christian Scientists, measuring up to the divine demand for steadfast, consistent, and convincing proofs that "Christian Science is Science"? While much is being done, much more needs to be done, and can be done, to hasten mankind's awakening to the realization of the allness and reality of God, good, and the consequent nothingness and unreality of evil, all that is not Godlike and spiritual.

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