WHEN, through Christian Science, the Bible student begins to discern and apply Scriptural teachings to his everyday problems, the Bible, which before may have seemed to him a volume of ancient statements having no bearing on present-day affairs, becomes a textbook of essential and definite rules, practical of application to his own daily living. One such statement is that given by Paul in his second epistle to the Corinthians, reading as follows: "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work."
Christian Science emphasizes the fact that anything once true must always be true; and because of Paul's declaration that the grace of God was able to supply all needful things, we have the right to claim that in this age the grace of God is likewise able to meet our needs.
On page 10 of "Christian Science versus Pantheism" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes: "Christian Scientists heal functional, organic, chronic, and acute diseases that M. D.'s have failed to heal; and, better still, they reform desperate cases of intemperance, tobacco using, and immorality, which, we regret to say, other religious teachers are unable to effect. All this is accomplished by the grace of God,—the effect of God understood." To realize this "sufficiency in all things," mankind must come into a right understanding of God and of His creation, a right understanding of spiritual causation.
