NOTHING of value is accomplished without a direct effort. This is especially true in our search for spiritual understanding. Diligence, which is defined as "the opposite of negligence," is a characteristic which is necessary in our growth Spiritward. Among the synonyms of diligence we find such qualities as constancy, industry, perseverance, earnestness. All such qualities reflect God, infinite Mind, and are necessarily inherent in the real man.
Of what avail is such logical reasoning to the perplexed and harassed human being who believes that he lives in matter? How is he to benefit from such unfoldment or to put into practice the rules of Christian Science? Through obedience to spiritual law, the law which gives him power to dissipate the beliefs in socalled material law, he can overcome disturbed material conditions. Christian Science furnishes him the means with which to prove the omnipotence and omnipresence of God. Through it he learns that God is the only Life, the only intelligence, the only Mind. This realization comes to him through spiritual sense.
"Man's refuge is in spirituality, 'under the shadow of the Almighty.'" These words by Mrs. Eddy, in her book "Unity of Good" (p. 57), mean much to the earnest seeker. Who does not long for a refuge from the disturbing and perplexing conditions of daily experience? Who does not yearn for certainty and enlightenment concerning the deep things of life? In such a statement as the one quoted, the discerning thinker finds courage, and conviction as to the right way out.
