Man, created by God, divine Mind, is obedient to His law, and abides within the realm of God's perfect government. According to the first chapter of the Gospel of John, "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." Splendid confirmation of this statement is found in the nineteenth chapter of Revelation: "And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth." These two Scriptural pronouncements lead to the scientific conclusion that God is the only creator, the only Lawmaker, the only Ruler.
Firmly established upon this mighty truth rests Christian Science, discovered and founded by our loved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. Because it is based upon the understanding of the omnipotence of God, Christian Science presents no controversial side. None of the efforts toward material progress which have occupied human thought throughout the centuries, the attempts to attribute power to what is termed natural force, the accumulation of material theories, can be weighed in the balance with the eternal allness of God. Christian Science declares His law and government to be positive and undeviating, ascribes all action and intelligence to Him, and denies reality to the mortal concept named matter. Christian Science accepts God as the infinite Supreme Being.
The practice of Christian Science calls for a clear understanding of the law of God, and obedience to it. It does not involve a mental attempt to transform a material universe into a universe of Spirit. Nor does it signify the changing of a mortal into an immortal. This Science states that the real universe and the real man are wholly spiritual, and that the opposite material concept is but a falsity of the so-called carnal mind.
