CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is available for all to understand and practice. Its teachings, which are set forth in the Bible and in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, may be grasped by any student who sets bias aside and approaches the study in sincerity and humility. The child may learn of its truths at his parents' knee or in Sunday school. The scholar may turn to it and, gaining enlightenment spiritually, find himself liberated from the bonds of false material theories and unreliable human hypotheses. No one, be his race or creed or intellectual status what it may, can be debarred from gaining a knowledge of Christian Science, the Christ Science, the Science of being.
Although all students of Christian Science do not grasp its divine Principle and rules equally readily, yet as they do understand its rules they are able to demonstrate them in the overcoming of inharmony, either mental or physical; and thus do they progress to higher understanding and greater power of demonstration. Mrs. Eddy writes on page 462 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "Some individuals assimilate truth more readily than others, but any student, who adheres to the divine rules of Christian Science and imbibes the spirit of Christ, can demonstrate Christian Science, cast out error, heal the sick, and add continually to his store of spiritual understanding, potency, enlightenment, and success." Christian Science is thus available to any student, and demonstrable by him, provided he adheres to its rules and possesses a measure of "the spirit of Christ."
How entirely reasonable, that divine Science should be available for everyone! For is not God divine Love? Is not He the creator, the Father-Mother, of us all? God has no favorites among His children; the humblest in the sight of men is as precious to Him as is the mightiest. God debars no one from seeking His aid. His arms are outstretched towards the sinner, however grievous his sin, even as they embrace the righteous. Isaiah, with his keen spiritual insight, knew this and could say, "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear."
