MORTALS have ever searched for an explanation of existence, for an understanding of God and His immutable laws. And because in every age there have been those spiritually-minded enough and earnest enough to discern something of the eternal truth, men have been encouraged to continue the search. It is with the spirit of helpfulness that Christian Science comes to-day to encourage and aid those seeking a demonstrable knowledge of the Principle of all creation.
Christian Science wastes no time with the superstitions and erroneous beliefs which have for so long governed the lives and acts of men. It immediately turns their thoughts to fundamental truths, truths that not only answer all the requirements of logic, but that can assuredly be demonstrated. Christian Science proceeds from the basis that God, the creator of all, is absolute, positive, and perfect, and that His creation is like Him; and it teaches that, to be perfect, God must be infinitely good, and that all real law must also be perfectly good.
The search for Truth has to many often seemed fruitless, because men usually have reasoned from a material basis. Starting with the hypothesis that matter is substance, they could not possibly reconcile the phenomena of mortal existence with Truth. During the course of the ages, they have evolved theories to account for so-called material phenomena: but there have remained certain conditions and occurrences to which they have been unable to fit a theory, and certain effects they could not attribute to any known cause. And so, in their ignorance of the governing laws of the true God, they have assigned such occurrences to chance or accidental circumstance.
