Jesus' career epitomized the activity of good. Wherever he went he knew the right thing to do, the right time to do it, and the right way to do it. Of those who encountered him many were healed of longstanding problems. Sinful desires were destroyed. The dead were raised. The hungry were fed.
Today there may be times when we believe the influence of good has nearly faded into nonexistence. In fact, we may feel better acquainted with evil. But only material-mindedness places the origin of action in matter instead of in God.
Christian Science, which attributes all that really exists to Spirit, enables us to dematerialize our sense of action. We can so spiritualize our concept of it that we see through the hypnotic suggestions of too little action, too much action, or distorted action. This Science teaches us to guard against such intruding aliens as apathy, laziness, indifference, as well as agitation, anger, and reaction. With the rousing, yet calming, impact of Truth, Christian Science relates activity wholly to the one cause—God, the one Mind. Thus the only activity is intelligent, harmonious, and eternal.
