ONE need not investigate Christian Science to any considerable extent to learn something of its message of dominion and activity. "Meet every adverse circumstance as its master," our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has written in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 419); and in other words and many places she indicates the availability of divine power.
True dominion is a harmonizing and spiritualizing force which comes to us as we gain the understanding of man's relationship to God. True dominion is not an expression of selfwill. The expression of divine power is not to be confused with personal domination. To gain the spiritual concept of man's dominion in the universe of ideas and utilize it, naturally results in a better human expression of establishment and activity. In this understanding we learn how and why we should chart our course in accordance with divine Principle; then we move forward in a more direct line to meet and fulfill the demands of Principle. Our objective becoming clearer, confusion is dissipated, order appears, certainty replaces doubt, and the sovereignty of Truth is seen as the basis of right.
In the lives of most individuals there are occasions when it is necessary to combat a sense of thwarted purpose. The even tenor of our way appears disturbed. Changes and reversals temporarily darken our vision. These manifestations of inharmony should be interpreted only in one way in Christian Science—as opportunities to prove the truth which overcomes them and to learn through the proving. The senses would argue that such experiences are natural and normal; that man is at the disposal of the winds of chance and fortune; that employment, for example, is uncertain and irregular. Some of the supporting suggestions in this line of argument are hackneyed expressions, such as, "We must take things as they come and make the best of it;" "History always repeats itself." The truth, however, as revealed in Christian Science, shows man's divinely established destiny of good assured.
