THE success of Christian Science practice depends on knowing that God rules omnipotently and supremely, since He is All.
No Christian entertains any doubt about God's supremacy in heaven, and many turn to Him with more or less assurance for guidance regarding earthly conditions and occurrences. But in the teachings of Christian Science the certainty of God's present help in all conditions and under all circumstances is clearly stressed, and may be proved by anyone who has gained the required spiritual understanding that brings conviction, even that understanding which enables him to declare the truth. Many devout Christians all through the centuries have valiantly maintained their faith in God, despite their apparent sufferings, and have consoled themselves with the hope that after the experience of death they might better understand the, to them, inscrutable will of God.
Most gratefully, then, do we prize the revelation through Christian Science that God's will toward His creation, man and the universe, is tenderly compassionate, and productive only of harmony. The prophet Isaiah declares, "Thus saith the Lord, . . . As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." Christ Jesus spent his life in the endeavor to impress mankind with the fact that a proper knowledge of the truth makes free.
