The Bible, which holds an important place in all Christian Science services, is often referred to as "the Book of books," and it is indeed true that one's outlook upon life is determined by his attitude toward the Bible. In it are to be found the great truths which enabled Moses and others to find and to understand God. The all-important question. What is God? has puzzled deep thinkers all down through the centuries. There have probably been as many different concepts of God as there have been thinkers, each one interpreting God from his own individual viewpoint; and then with the inability to obtain a satisfactory answer, many a man has cried out in his anguish, "Oh that I knew where I might find him!" and has felt the problem Zophar presented to Job of old, "Canst thou by searching find out God?" But the difficulty has been that mankind has been searching for God where He is not. "The starting-point of divine Science," Mrs. Eddy states on page 275 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the textbook of Christian Science, "is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,— that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle."
Here we have a definite and positive statement of what God is; and from this premise that God is All-in-all and that He is divine Principle, every problem of the human race can be solved. The fact that God is ever present, which must be the case if He is All, is the most comforting thought that can come to the human heart. To know that every true thought is known to God even though it may not be expressed in words, and that He guides us every moment of our existence, gives one a sense of peace and assurance which is beyond the comprehension of one who has not reached this spiritual perception.
This, then, is the viewpoint to be attained, and it is well worth striving for. It is fundamental, and without it nothing of any real importance can be gained. It is in substance what Jesus commended in summing up some of his positive statements in that discourse known as the Sermon on the Mount, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." and is what Mrs. Eddy in her message to the Concord church in 1904 (Miscellany, p. 160) defines as Christian Science: ''To live so as to keep human consciousness in constant relation with the divine, the spiritual, and the eternal, is to individualize infinite power; and this is Christian Science."
