HOW wonderfully a knowledge of Christian Science unfolds the lessons available to each and every student of the Bible! The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is indeed proving itself a veritable "key" to the Scriptures. How it reveals to the inquiring thought the truth concerning God and man! How it brings God near to every heart hungering and thirsting after righteousness, and demonstrably proves Him to be, as the Bible states, an ever present help in time of trouble, healing sickness and forgiving sin!
Christian Science liberates mankind from the limiting personal belief of God as humanly circumscribed, and reveals Him as divine Principle, infinite good, whose law is available in every emergency and susceptible of practical application under every circumstance and condition. In Science and Health (p. 587) our Leader defines "God" in part thus: "The great I AM; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal." This completely refutes all belief of intelligence in matter, mortal mind, or evil.
Christian Science acquaints mankind with God as the source of all true being; as Soul, which contradicts the belief of sensation in matter. It reveals Spirit as the only substance, indestructible, eternal, infinite. It presents Truth and Love as unchanging, unvarying, immutable, the only power. The understanding of these spiritual facts illumines the dark recesses of mortal thought with the effulgent light of immortal Truth. Surely, then, Christian Science is the sovereign panacea, the precious balm of Gilead, earnestly desired and sought in times of old when the prophet Jeremiah voiced the query, "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?"
