On pages 82 and 83 of "Miscellaneous Writings" our beloved Leader says that God, Mind, "is the divine intelligence, or Principle, of all real being; holding man forever in the rhythmic round of unfolding bliss, as a living witness to and perpetual idea of inexhaustible good." To a world harassed by fear, torn with suffering, threatened with disaster, this message of Christian Science that man's well-being is not the sport of chance or circumstance, but is forever established and governed by unerring law, wholly beneficent and universally operative, comes as healing balm; for inseparable from the message are the confidence, certainty, and comfort which it inspires.
When Christ Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly," he summarized the spirit of his mission. This wonderfully comforting and comprehensive statement is in keeping with everything else that he taught, and with all that he did. The unfailing success which attended his life-work, its supreme selflessness, its perfect justice, unlimited scope, ministering as it did to all human needs, point to fundamental divine law. Only that which expresses invariable divine Principle could be infallible, impartial, wholly beneficent, and universal in its operation. This divine law remained to be discovered by Mary Baker Eddy, who named her discovery "Christian Science."
Christian Science reveals God, the only cause, as infinite Mind, and man, made in God's image and likeness and coexistent with Him, as Mind's infinite idea or expression. As there could be no cause without an effect, and no effect without a cause, so Mind without an idea would be no Mind, and an idea without Mind an impossibility. This unity of Mind and its idea insures the permanence and perfection of man and the universe, and indicates the supreme importance to Mind of every one of its ideas, that its infinitude may be fully expressed. Therefore there is no individual who, in his real being, is not essential to the completeness of God and His manifestation, or whose welfare is not the object of His constant and tender solicitude. Each of His ideas is lovingly cherished and unfailingly sustained by Him, that in turn it may magnify and glorify His holy name forever. Out of the abundance of His limitless goodness He ceaselessly imparts to each of His ideas the harmony and perfection which characterize His infinite being. Thus Christian Science shows that there is, in reality, no such thing as lack in God, man, or the universe; that all that is necessary to the well-being of man is perpetually his, without measure, by virtue of the immutable law whereby man reflects God as His spiritual image and likeness.
