Life, discerned spiritually, is splendidly worth living. Regarded materially, life is neither secure nor satisfying. Because of its own limitations the material measurement of life can bestow no lasting joy. It is therefore a most precious privilege to arrive at a knowledge of Life which transcends material experience. This understanding Christian Science unfolds in revealing God to be divine Life itself, and divine Life to be the true life of man.
In the field of the natural sciences, insight and education penetrate beyond the evidence of the physical senses, and discover facts undiscerned by these senses. So-called laws, causes and effects imperceptible to human sight and hearing, are found to be maintaining the physical universe; and that these forces are beyond the border of physical sight and contradict physical testimony is a fact increasingly undisputed by present-day research.
The same denial of sense testimony enters also into the realm of religious thought. Everything connected with faith, with prayer, with spiritual comfort and strengthening, operates in the mental realm and contradicts the fears, the temptations, the discouragements and burdens of the material outlook.
