THERE is no body of people on earth to-day more free, happy, grateful, and expectant of good than are Christian Scientists, those who are members of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, and its branches. Their religion, revealed to this age through their inspired Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, is a religion of love, of unselfishness and spirituality; and its students, far and wide over the surface of the earth, are standing alert, the sandals of the gospel of peace on their feet, the rod of Truth in their hands, and, withal, protected from the shafts of evil by the impervious armor of scientific, correct thinking. Attacks of the carnal mind, which is "enmity against God," have been launched from the beginning of mortal history, and from the beginning have been doomed to failure. They never can succeed in separating man from God, or in changing God's perfect plan for His creation, man, the expression or reflection of Himself.
Consider for a moment the word "infinite." Does it not comprehend in its meaning the all-inclusive, the complete and perfect All—in other words the One and only? Unity is defined as the "state of being one." Surely in God, then, there is absolute unity. God could never make an idea unlike Himself, Spirit. God and His creation are thus necessarily one—unified, harmonious, perfect, indestructible. Because God is divine Mind and includes all intelligence, man is intelligent; because God is Spirit, man is spiritual, not material; because God is Love, man is loving. Moreover, because God is All-in-all, man is completely at-one with and inseparable from Him.
God, Spirit, then, is the only creator because He is the infinite One. God cannot be cognized by the material senses; but His works are nevertheless manifest. This is not difficult to understand. Do not we all speak of joy, love, kindness, compassion, happiness, knowledge, intelligence, and so on? Are these not realities to us; and does not the whole world wish for them, search for them? And yet, who has ever seen any one of them with the material eye? These qualities can never be seen materially, because they are purely mental. Their effects, however, are always individualized. These words of our Leader from "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 160) sound a clarion call to renewed effort that will not be denied: "To live so as to keep human consciousness in constant relation with the divine, the spiritual, and the eternal, is to individualize infinite power; and this is Christian Science."
