Through an understanding of the many beautiful attributes of Mind, God, as enumerated by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," a thoughtful student of Christian Science found great comfort in perceiving that the essence of every one of them was permanence. Referring to "the fleeting concepts of the human mind," on page 264, Mrs. Eddy writes, "They have their day before the permanent facts and their perfection in Spirit appear."
For many years the student had been groping in the fog of material illusions and was at last finding those concepts to be transitory. She was only too glad to see them vanish into the void from which they had seemingly come; and by an earnest study of the Bible and all of Mrs. Eddy's writings this student learned of the realities of Spirit and their permanency.
No one ever so clearly proved the fact of spiritual permanence as did Jesus the Christ in his healing works. God-endowed, he acknowledged only the good and the true, and through his holy mission and career he remained faithful to his vision. Jesus expressed what he knew without hesitation or doubt. Having accomplished a healing he went on his way, assured that no relapse would occur. God-governed, he understood, as Christian Scientists are taught to understand, that since God is eternal, the allness of good is permanent. Faced with the unwavering permanency of good, evil intentions, wrong thoughts, unkind deeds, harmful purposes shrank away into oblivion even as night vanishes with the coming of day.
