WHATEVER may have been the individual outlook upon life, whether its constantly changing questions were faced with fine though oftentimes futile courage, or whether its issues were evaded with cynical disparagement of virtues, it is certain that until the advent of Christian Science no one had ventured to regard the problems of life as being capable of a solution as scientific and certain as a mathematician's or an astronomer's computation. Christian Science supplies this new and interest-begetting viewpoint by showing that every problem, every difficulty, every decision, may be fearlessly faced and worked out to its concordant resolution according to the exact rules of perfect Principle. This fresh aspect stirs jaded thought to enthusiasm. An unfamiliar exhilaration pervades consciousness as different phases of error are seen to yield one by one to the power of newly declared, eternal Truth. To one's astonished joy Christian Science seems to be, as indeed it is, a perfect panacea, and one feels that at last he has found the way to certain harmony, the way shown by Christ Jesus.
The full scope of Christian Science is not at first apparent. Eventually, however, the fact must be grasped that it is something vastly greater than merely a new remedy for specific problems; it is a complete statement of the problem of being. It reveals divine Mind as the center, the circumference, and the continuity of all that really exists or ever can exist in the infinitude of spiritual being, and it prepares thought to explore and to realize spiritual consciousness as man's true and only estate.
The first encouraging and frequently remarkable demonstrations of the power of even a little spiritual understanding are gleams of truth which will illumine the later toil and persuade the ascent out of matter into Mind that awaits every individual consciousness. These first demonstrations are proofs, precious and indispensable, that consciousness is awakening to spiritual being, and but for these assurances that Christian Science is demonstrably true, there would be no incentive to labor for the overcoming of the entire error of mortal existence. Consciousness would, in fact, remain just where other theories have found and left it, unaware of the present exclusive reality of spiritual being.
