IT must be abundantly clear to any sincere student of Mrs. Eddy's writings that the changes which constantly occur in human life and in the material universe take place only in the orbit of erroneous belief, and not within the realm of reality, in the kingdom of God. Does not Mrs. Eddy say in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 96), "Belief is changeable, but spiritual understanding is changeless"?
In the domain of belief there are what might be termed good and bad changes; changes which make for improvement, and others which are definitely retrograde. We can all think of changes taking place in the mortal body, in the human character, in the body politic of nations, in organizations of whatever nature, in the material universe, and so on. In every phase of human existence changes for better or for worse take place continually, as human thought responds to influences divine or human, spiritual or material.
The Christian Science church, according to our present state of development, is largely engaged in changing, or healing, the ills of mortal mind, through convincing sufferers that their sick, sinful, or unhappy beliefs are illusions, and that they can cast them out of their lives by accepting the truth of God's changeless goodness, and understanding that "man is the expression of God's being" as Christian Science teaches (ibid., p. 470).
