A mid human conflicts, the question sometimes arises: "Does God really exist? Is there a Supreme Being in whom we can put our trust?" In grateful remembrance of numberless evidences of the gradual overcoming of evil in his own experience through Christian Science, the Christian Scientist unhesitatingly responds: "Yes; our Father-Mother God, as revealed in Christian Science, does exist and is supreme." He does not expect to be able to prove this by argument alone, nor is he satisfied with argumentative refutation of the claims of opponents; but he looks always to the infinite Mind for final judgment of the issue in the human heart. This willingness always amplifies and adds to his own store of right apprehension, and all concerned are blessed, himself included. Hence, to any who are dissatisfied with the fruits of doubt, the student of Christian Science is ready to give a reason for the hope that is in him, knowing that God blesses right motives and lakes care of their fruitage. He does this without fear, because willing to abide by Truth itself, which is known by the lest of demonstration. If God, good, exists and is supreme, as Christian Science inculcates, the scientific apprehension and demonstration of this fact will solve the life-problem, while the acceptance or rejection of the platform of Christian Science without such a test amounts to little.
That which the infinite creator understands and has brought into being, rather than that which human minds claim to know by investigation, must constitute the basis of all practical demonstration of Christianity in human affairs. The very term investigation implies a state of admitted ignorance, to be dissipated as the light of demonstrable truth illumines the understanding. It is plain that this condition of admitted finitude and continual thirst for the undiscovered, does not justify any one in denying the existence of an infinite Mind. Attempting to prove that a diligent search in mindless matter conduces to an illumination of the understanding and is a process of mind, mortal thought is met by the statement of Christian Science that "there is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" (Science and Health, p. 468).
In view of the world-wide, persistent labor for the attainment of the ideal goal, —a perfect understanding of all things,—what shall be said of the suggestion that there is no perfect, no infinite intelligence? Is it not well to pause and determine whether results attained by the investigation of matter are really illuminative? Do they bring one nearer to the cause of all? An honest search for that Truth which is Mind must eventually lose the aspect of an investigation, which implies an activity apart from spiritual creation, from right consciousness. The ideal attitude for one who would know something of truth as God knows it, was instinctively indicated by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy, in a very early religious experience, when, after being persistently questioned, she responded that she could only say as did the psalmist, "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in . the way everlasting." (See Retrospection and Introspection. p. 14.)
