CENTURIES ago Job voiced the pathetic cry of millions in every age and clime, when he said, "Oh that I knew where I might find him [God]! that I might come even to his seat!" This patriarch knew there was a God, but knew not of His ever-presence. His statement, "I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth," showed clearly Job's trustful assurance of God's existence, and indicated that, when spiritual understanding should dawn upon him, he would recognize God's supremacy "in earth, as it is in heaven," and then he would realize God's healing power in the flesh. What Job really sought was an understanding of the Principle of being, the actuality of Spirit and its creation, the realm in which harmony would be the only and eternal reality.
To-day, mankind is reechoing Job's thought; for it finds itself in the wilderness of human beliefs searching for that understanding of good which will bring surcease to the false claims of materiality,—sin, disease, and death,—and enable it also to discern the harmonious facts of existence as the only reality of being here and now. Christian Science is the revelation of these facts; and it is through its study and practice that they are scientifically unfolded and demonstrably understood. This truth dispels the illusions of the senses and reveals the eternal harmony.
A dictionary defines the word "fact" as "reality, actuality, truth." Facts are always harmonious, as a demonstrable understanding of them reveals. For instance, the truth regarding numbers is not to be found in the figures themselves. It is only when we perceive numbers as ideas, and understand in some degree the fundamental laws of their relationship, that all arithmetical problems can be correctly solved and mathematical harmony expressed.
