What is the work of the Christian Scientist? A fair answer to this question might be summed up thus: To see God's ideas, His spiritual universe, as God knows them. The spiritual universe, including individual man, is perfect and eternal; and through Christian Science mortals have the joy of learning this great fact.
An essential step in the working out of human difficulties is to realize that the answer to every problem is already in divine Mind, and that therefore we must take our problems to God in order to solve them. When one realizes that he is working out his salvation according to the perfect rules of divine Principle, he can rejoice all along the way until its consummation, because he knows that the errors of material sense are being corrected and spiritual sense is bringing out the truth of all things.
One individual may seem to be suffering from a belief in sin, another from some physical disease; or the problem may be one of sorrow. A recognition of the deceptive nature of all these phases of materiality will enable one to meet and overcome each difficulty. Error springs from belief in the reality of a material existence, and the proof of the power of divine intelligence to vanquish one phase of error encourages one to go forward in the overcoming of all erroneous belief.
