Successful living, as understood in Christian Science, and as it has already appeared to me in experience, whenever the illuminating power of Spirit has freshly clarified the mind, is the realization of existence, in the one sense of it, that always attends the reflection in thought and deed, of the "divine Principle of Being" in purity and fullness. By this gracious attending the supremacy of Spirit is perceived to be the one living actuality, because Spirit is seen to be the divine Truth that creates, illumines, and sustains us with its true Light and Life, and is seen to be the divine Love, that, in creating, inspires and warms with its self-existent, living beauty, expressed in demonstration. It is the inspiring basis of all hope that is worthy, and impels me to apply myself in the one thing always at my command, namely: action of mind, if not at first of body.
The action that most promotes the realization of Life has, in experience, been found, invariably, to be that which most promotes purity in thought, and therefore, power in deed, through the reflection of divine Principle.
Love of Good — God —appears as the perpetual source of hope, and inspiration to activity in man, —the foundation sense of Life and purpose that is true and lasting, spurring humanity to that application of means within its disposal, which promises, to each one's view, the hastening of the fruition of the mind's ideal. By these efforts we all learn, sooner or later, in actual life, that in God's economy "something never comes from nothing," but does come in response to the genuine desire that impels to earnest striving. Hence persistent application of the means within our reach to gain Good or purity.
