Memories of childhood days in homes where parents were religiously inclined, usually recall the reading of the Bible as one of the required duties. What mysteries surrounded the apparently strange phenomena related in some of those stories! With what interest the youthful imagination attempted to draw a mental picture of a God so satisfying as to make those stories seem really true! In course of time the same "still small voice" that enabled the true idea to triumph in times of flood, famine, persecution, war, and disease, revealed through Mary Baker Eddy the Science of Christianity. By patient, devoted obedience to the unfolding message, she was able to present the revelation of Truth to the world so logically that all prepared to receive it might awaken from the dream of physical suffering and the limitations incident to the belief in the reality of matter.
For more than sixty years the growing understanding of this Science has enabled those who study it and apply it faithfully to see as a result the healing of all manner of sin and disease. These proofs have appeared in the experience of thousands of men, women, and children, and have proved an explanation of the experiences of the Bible characters who were able to apprehend and obey the voice of Truth, and whose understanding of God has been so divinely preserved for our inspiration and guidance. All that is known about God and His relation to man has been made so plain that children grasp its spiritual import, and are joyously set free from the limitations of sense in their varied forms. To each receptive thought comes the awakening to the great fact, taught in Christian Science, that each one lives in God, Mind, and thus, that man is at-one with God. One begins to understand that God not only was capable of caring for His children in past ages, but is ready to deliver them now from pain, poverty, misfortune, or hunger; for these false beliefs are destroyed by what Mrs. Eddy calls, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 556), "the radiation of Spirit," which "destroys forever all belief in intelligent matter."
The Christian Science definition of God is all-inclusive, and leaves no doubt that there is just one source whence emanates all true thinking. The account of the creation of all that expresses God is given in the first chapter of Genesis. This creation was pronounced "very good," and God's own qualities were freely bestowed on man by the all-loving Father. Man, made in the image and likeness of God, has spiritual sense, the capacity to receive the truth and to understand the true God and the universe of His creating.
