TO most people earthly existence appears to be a complex, inconsistent puzzle, a more or less meaningless prelude to the unknown. In such a case, human thoughts are wayward, footsteps uncertain, and the goal seems dim or nil. This is because human experience is being regarded objectively, according to physical sense evidence, instead of subjectively, as a precious school for growth in the graces of Spirit, loving kindness, intelligent thinking, purposeful joy.
Christian Science brings to humanity the revelation of God as divine Principle, together with clear instruction as to how human thought and experience may be brought under the control and protection of Principle. The result is the gain of simplicity and consistency in contrast with complexity and contrariety. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 111) Mrs. Eddy writes, "That Christian Science is valid, simple, real, and self-evident, thousands upon thousands attest with their individual demonstrations."
Many could simplify and fructify their lives by the elimination of time and thought absorbing nonessentials. Christian Science is definite. It does away with any vicarious theory, such as the belief that an individual can be absolved from wickedness by another's holiness. It calls for present and individual proof of Christian power. From the study of this subject, single-heartedness and intelligent thought censorship emerge. Humanity's troubles come upon it mainly through its confused thinking. Christian Science teaches that the basis of thought censorship is the perfection of the one divine Mind reflected in man. Practice of this censorship leads to the elimination of mistaken thoughts and habits, and points the way whereby moral and physical suffering may be ruled out of human experience. By this means every student of Christian Science is in a position to learn the might and joyousness of boundless spiritual being. This simple, veracious outlook, true to Principle, turns back the mental miscreants of doubt, duplicity, anxiety, infidelity. Christian Science quickens and nourishes the higher nature, awakens dormant spirituality, equips one to prove that man is not sickly, but healthy; is not bad, but good; is not sad, but glad. Spiritual vision displaces mental confusion.
