IN character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity," wrote Longfellow. But how is one to retain this quality amid the increasing complexity of existence? Simplified living is gained as one finds the true sense of what constitutes the universe, including man, and its relation to God and forsakes the entanglements resulting from false concepts of God and His creation.
Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Unity of Good" (p. 9): "The talent and genius of the centuries have wrongly reckoned. They have not based upon revelation their arguments and conclusions as to the source and resources of being,—its combinations, phenomena, and outcome,—have built instead upon the sand of human reason. They have not accepted the simple teaching and life of Jesus as the only true solution of the perplexing problem of human existence."
Christian Science prunes the encumbering branches of materialism by the understanding of the allness of God—hence His oneness. Within this oneness are all "combinations, phenomena, and outcome"— there is no being outside this oneness. From this it follows that existence is spiritual, included in God, Spirit. Since the material senses can take no cognizance of Spirit, any evidence they seem to present of existence is false.
