IN his efforts to make spiritual progress, the earnest and sincere student of Christian Science needs often to remind himself of the fact that God's work is done. To God, infinite Mind, there is no doubtful or unanswered question.
The statement of any proposition in mathematics involves the correct answer or solution. To illustrate: the question, "What is the sum of nine and eleven?" implies or includes the answer, "Twenty," which, being the truth about the sum of nine and eleven, has always been simultaneously coexistent with that mathematical proposition. In the same way, there can be no problem in any line of experience which has not its answer already established. Thus the problem as to man's genuine and real selfhood is answered in the true idea of man as God's own image and likeness, finding expression in the consciousness of health, holiness, strength, courage, honesty, virtue, love, substance, and so on, all these qualities being expressive of the divine Principle, Love. To Love, there is no problem of fear or hate; to Truth, no problem of error; to good, no problem of evil; to holiness, no problem of sin; to health, no problem of disease.
Health includes in its meaning soundness, wholeness, completeness. When the wholeness of anything is demonstrated, then its completeness and perfection are evidenced. A problem, of whatever nature, is a problem only to the thought which is ignorant of or unenlightened as to the truth about that which is involved in the problem. When sufficient knowledge or understanding has replaced the ignorance, there ceases to be a problem; and that which appeared as such has no further power to confuse and disturb.
