The questions which most deeply concern human existence can never be satisfactorily answered until we gain an understanding of the cause of things. Of necessity, this cause must contain within itself all power because there could be nothing greater than itself; all presence because it could not be separated from its effect; all wisdom because there could be no intelligence apart from it. Therefore, being omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, it must be eternal, else creation would cease; and it must be changeless, else all would be discord. Christian Science reveals cause as the underlying, overlying, all-governing Principle of that which is, and as such, cause cannot be subject to limitation, but must be limitless Mind.
Whether one believes in God or not, is answered by his concept of what that word means to him. In Christian Science God is conceived of as wholly good, and this concept is more clearly understood through the unfoldment of good in consciousness. "You cannot see what you have not some notion of yourself," says Alcott; and thus it follows that as we find God we find good. Through the human consciousness of good it is possible for us to find God, and to show us the way was the mission of Jesus. He proved divine Principle to be unchanging Life and that Life unchanging good. "This is life eternal," said he, "that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."
To know the true God in Christian Science is to know good, and to know good is to find eternal life by demonstrating the Christ, Truth, ever-present good. Reason, revelation, and demonstration all declare this to be the only way to understand Life. Reason declares that Mind which made all, must be wholly good, because only good is constructive; and that the activity of Mind must be love, which blesses all alike because such love is the embodiment of good and finds its expression in action, in life, which must be without beginning or end. Tennyson found daily proof of unchanging life when he wrote,—
