In Jeremiah we read, "Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever." This is but one of the many precious promises about the promised land which are found in the Book of books, and which are bringing encouragement and joy and hope to mankind.
Jeremiah says to turn again from our evil ways. Well he understood that false mortal mind which Paul aptly described as the "carnal mind" and which is "enmity against God;" for this ever deceitful counterfeit of the divine Mind, God, continually seeks to dissuade us from searching for and finding the land that the Lord has given us. The prophet plainly saw that until the people relied wholly on the living and true God, they would have need to turn again, and yet again, from believing in the pleasures and pains of material existence. But though they might stumble along the wrong path, let them only turn to the right path and the glorious way to the promised land lay straight before them.
In our own time we have a book, a true chart and guide, written to encourage and cheer the weary wanderer—the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." It was written by a woman who had struggled to find the true path to God. Mary Baker Eddy had always been an earnest student of the Bible; and her discovery, in her own case, that God heals, when all human means had been exhausted and she was left to die, proved that the Word of God was just as quick and as powerful in the nineteenth century as it was when the words quoted above were written, or when Jesus instantaneously healed the sick and raised the dead. Of her subsequent tireless searching of the Scriptures to discover the law governing her healing, and to enable her to prove its divine origin to others, Mrs. Eddy tells us (Science and Health, pp. 226, 227), "I pressed on through faith in God, trusting Truth, the strong deliverer, to guide me into the land of Christian Science, where fetters fall and the rights of man are fully known and acknowledged."
