During the study of a Lesson sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, a student of Christian Science was one day making a particularly earnest effort to grasp more fully the great truth that God, good, is ever present, and that evil, therefore, does not exist. Spiritual inspiration seemed to be lacking at the moment, and the solution of a problem was not apparent. Suddenly attention was arrested by these words on page 456 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "Truth does the work." Instantly came a clear sense of God's perfect, ever active presence. The student plainly saw that her overanxious thought had been endeavoring to assist omnipotent Mind in the establishment of harmony. She had been trying to aid Truth in the destruction of a malevolent power which had never existed. The divine message, for such it surely was, did not end at that point. Further study brought to light these words on page 380 of the same volume: "Truth is always the victor." Simple, direct, profoundly significant, these two assurances! They supplied the needed light, and the correct answer to the question at hand became evident.
Truth's work, the will of God made manifest, is the perfect, unerring activity of the spiritual universe. In the Psalms we read, "Let thy work appear unto thy servants." Through Christian Science God's work is appearing all over the world. Many are awakening not only to a knowledge of real selfhood, but to a perception of the sublime truth that God's harmonious government is an everlasting certainty. Our Leader has written in "No and Yes" (pp. 10, 11), "Eternal harmony, perpetuity, and perfection, constitute the phenomena of being, governed by the immutable and eternal laws of God." His work cannot be checked, hindered, or delayed, for it is the perpetual unfoldment of reality.
We all have our part to do in witnessing to God's work, for since our true selfhood reflects Him it manifests true activity. The Christian Scientist must first clarify his thinking through constant study of the Bible and Science and Health, and through consistent mental employment of the rules laid down therein. He must strive to follow the counsel given in our textbooks. Doing this, he is equipped to do his part in right mental activity with understanding, faith, and loyalty. He can joyfully go forward in the work of helping to free human consciousness of the nagging fears, doubts, and discouragements of which the so-called carnal mind is the supposititious source. He can intelligently aid in the obliteration of the false mortal concept which testifies only to an inharmonious universe. There is no greater work than this.
