At some time in our lives, the insistent questions come to each one of us: Why am I here? How came I to be here, and for what purpose? In the endeavor to answer these questions thought begins to travel in many directions for something that is comforting, something that will quiet longings and still unsatisfied desires. These questions and the effort to find satisfying answers revolve continuously and inevitably around the one central point, namely, What is existence, or, What is the meaning of existence?
The revelation of Christian Science, through Mary Baker Eddy, unfolds the meaning of true existence as substance, reality, good. Thus in a careful study of the writings of our Leader we find a clear line of demarcation between a temporary sense of existence and the eternal reality.
Referring to the sense of temporal life, Mrs. Eddy writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 186); "A material sense of existence is not the scientific fact of being; whereas, the spiritual sense of God and His universe is the immortal and true sense of being."
