Christian Science brings to the human race the greatest encouragement it has ever known and the greatest stimulus. It brings to it the correct mental perspective, the spiritual ability to discriminate between right and wrong in their subtlest presentments, and the power to utilize the might of spiritual ideas in the practical overcoming of all phases of discord.
In two contrasted pictures the prophet Jeremiah points out the connection between perspective and prospect, between a man's outlook and its results in his experience. He writes, "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord. . . . For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, . . . and shall not see when heat cometh, . . . neither shall cease from yielding fruit."
Of the opposite type, "whose heart departeth from the Lord," he writes, "He . . . shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness." The one who mentally turns away from God and from spirituality does not see the good which is constantly emanating from God, creative Mind. But if he will turn to the spiritual sense of creation, to the living waters of divine Love, for correction, for comfort and inspiration, his thought need no longer be parched, nor his life barren, and burdened with anxiety.
