EVERY line of thought presented for the consideration of mankind which claims to be scientific, hence demonstrable, must have as its basis a fixed, unchanging law, and it necessarily follows that he who hopes to prove any of the truths claimed in behalf of any particular line must keep his efforts and conclusions absolutely in consonance with what is called its fundamental principle. Christian Science has such a basis. The Principle of Christian Science is God.
The teaching of Christian Science emphasizes the omnipotence and omnipresence of God. It declares that perfect, divine Principle is the only reality and the sole governor of man, and sets forth with uncompromising fidelity the omnipresence of those qualities and conditions which must necessarily exist as the expression of an infinite creator. This view-point is directly opposed to the trend of mortal belief and the testimony of material sense, and the individual who is endeavoring to prove this, will find, as did Paul, two laws in his members warring one with the other. Speaking of these opposing opinions, Mrs. Eddy likens the view of the Christian Scientist to that of an artist, who says: "I have spiritual ideals, indestructible and glorious. When others see them as I do, in their true light and loveliness, . . . they will find that nothing is lost, and all is won, by a right estimate of what is real" (Science and Health, p. 359).
The student who is intelligently applying the teachings of Christian Science in his daily life is the one whose thought is consciously at work in the realm of good, the one who never forgets the spiritual basis of all Christianly scientific endeavor, that is, that all there is, all there can be, is God and His perfect creation. He has realized something of the scientific truth, and his mental declarations and denials are for the purpose of removing from his consciousness the erroneous sense of things which makes the bondage of mankind to material law seem real, as well as the necessity of having knowledge of the conditions resulting from the operation of these asserted laws.
