The search for healing of their physical ills impels many to turn to Christian Science. Inevitably, all those who have thus become seekers for Truth interest themselves in the fundamentals of this new-old teaching of Christ Jesus. Earnest longing and love-filled peace go together. A grateful heart is an open door through which the beams of dawning spiritual understanding find entrance. When the consciousness of the seeker for Truth is filled with honesty, faith, humility, and love, the soft rays of hope and understanding become to him a bright light. Then it is that he finds the Scripture fulfilled: "Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. And I will be found of you, saith the Lord."
The recognition of man and the universe as the expression of God, Spirit, is fundamental in Christian Science. Now what is the best way to gain a clear perception of God and His expression? Every seeker should first and foremost study the Bible and the works of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science; and to apply what one understands promotes progress. Everyone can help his neighbor through sharing good thoughts. These thoughts, expressed from a heart filled with brotherly love, contain the grain of Truth which is needed in the solving of this or that problem, and the establishing of one's confidence in Truth, "here a little, and there a little."
To "stand porter at the door of thought" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 392) is fundamental in Christian Science. Everyone has his individual thoughts. But what do people think, in general? Unhappily, in many instances, material, narrow, or sickly thoughts are entertained. Such thoughts are suggestions of mortal mind. Thought externalizes itself, and all wrong thinking leads away from spiritual reality. Reviewing the material externalization of mortal thoughts throughout the ages, we find a picture of a supposititious material creation as recorded in the second chapter of Genesis, and we see the necessity for purifying our thought from all that is unspiritual. When we consider the results which mortal mind thus produces, the imperfection of the mortal sense is plainly evident in sin, sickness, and death.
