STUDENTS of Christian Science gain much peace and comfort, as well as freedom, from proving for themselves the promise expressed by Mrs. Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 261): "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts." The student will understand that when our Leader uses these words, "the enduring, the good, and the true," she refers to spiritual facts, and by no means implies that by holding thought to material conditions of better health or more abundant supply one will experience a desired material change. It is possible that the student following her instructions has experienced good effects without clearly realizing why the holding of thought "to the enduring, the good, and the true," enables one to experience improved material conditions.
One may have failed to understand clearly the Christian Science teaching that what are called physical conditions may be controlled and adjusted through the correct understanding of the facts of true being and through the application of the truth to the problem confronting one. Having once experienced this result, however, one must admit the truth of Mrs. Eddy's teaching.
Have the questions come to the student: How was the Master able, as our Leader tells us on pages 476 and 477 of Science and Health, by seeing man as the perfect likeness of God, when the material senses reported mortals as sinful or sick, to change what appeared to be physical facts? What heals?
