When the prophets of old, God's messengers to that age, told the Israelites what God required of them, the pronouncement was often preceded by the profound assurance, "Thus saith the Lord." Through spiritualization of thought these men had so risen above personal sense that they could declare with confidence that the infinite God, divine Mind, was speaking through them, and that obedience to the law of God, so declared, would bring its equivalent in blessings to mankind.
As we trace the experiences of these chosen people of the Lord not only in their wanderings from the Red Sea to the promised land, but in the after years, as told in the Old Testament, how plainly we find proof of the accuracy of these promises! Obedience brought its reward in success; disobedience its penalty in failure and sorrow. Is there any reason to presume that God's laws are in the least different to-day, or that men may with impunity be less obedient to those laws to-day than of yore?
The first statement in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, reads: "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings" (Pref., p. vii). And on page 167 she says, "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized." Are we really leaning on "the sustaining infinite," and can we honestly claim the blessings that inevitably result from complete reliance on Truth, if we are being influenced and misled by the decisions of mortal mind, with all its material theories and vagaries? If mortal mind is directing our general decisions, and we seek the help of divine Love only when we are in trouble, can we be said to be relying radically on Truth?
