ON page 131 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes, "The central fact of the Bible is the superiority of spiritual over physical power." And on page 139 of the same book she says: "From beginning to end, the Scriptures are full of accounts of the triumph of Spirit, Mind, over matter. Moses proved the power of Mind by what men called miracles; so did Joshua, Elijah, and Elisha." The four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles are full of accounts of spiritual power demonstrated in the healing of disease and sin and the saving from danger. The teaching of Jesus and his disciples points emphatically to the necessity of gaining an understanding of this power as being not only the best, but the only way by which men can be saved from moral and physical destruction.
Jesus said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." All that is necessary for our moral and physical welfare will be—is, indeed—already ours, if we are dwelling in the true understanding of God. In Isaiah we read, "Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears." The aptness of this injunction to present-day conditions has been made clear through the discovery of Christian Science. Is not the world to-day still, for the most part, blind and deaf to the true import of the Bible?
The accounts of "the superiority of spiritual over physical power" have been known to every reader of the Bible since it was first printed; yet material theories would seem, except in rare instances, to have completely obscured these facts. Few seem to have been gifted with this wonderful spiritual instinct; and no one, until the revelation came to Mary Baker Eddy, was ever so courageous and selfless as to undertake the great work of investigating this power and proving the truth that lay at the back of all these accounts of spiritual power related throughout the Bible.
