IT is axiomatic to the monotheist that whatever is true is of God, and that whatever is not of God is untrue. Plainly, then, an understanding of God is a prerequisite to the ascertaining of the truth about anything and everything. The man who is trying to make Christianity practical in the light of Christian Science is endeavoring to gain this understanding of the one creator, and in his thinking he is therefore trying to accept as real only what God has caused to be.
Such a one realizes that Christian Science, pushing past the multiplicity of human opinions and incongruous conditions with which the world is laboring, strikes deep into the basic reality and founds its reason and its faith on the one intelligent cause of all that is true. Through the study of Christian Science he becomes convinced that the only correct concept of Deity is as divine Mind, infinite, all powerful, all wise, the sole cause primarily, presently, eternally. He perceives that this Mind is expressed in all true activity, which it originates and governs. Mentally laying hold of the truth about God as the single premise for all right thinking, Christian Science reasons with unimpeachable logic to rational and demonstrable concepts of peace and perfectness with regard to every problem confronting mankind.
The demand of this Science is seen to be radical, its road of reason straight and narrow, God the only cause,—God manifest in all effect, one loving creator, one perfect creation. This is the truth which it requires men to recognize and begin to make use of in their daily lives. The complexity of the human problem matters not a whit, save to increase the reasons for turning from the mesmerism of it and raising thought above earth's shadows to supernal truth, man's birthright, thus dispelling with the light of scientific scrutiny the claims of mortal sense. On page 355 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy says, "To strike out right and left against the mist, never clears the vision; but to lift your head above it, is a sovereign panacea." Such is the demand of Science in matters financial and vocational as well as in problems physical.
