On page 275 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy makes the attentionarresting statement, "The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,—that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle." And in the paragraph that follows she continues, "To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science, you must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle of all that really is."
The spiritual and practical import of these significant statements was demonstrated by a student of Christian Science after he had worked long and earnestly to solve a problem that seemed to be stubborn and unyielding in its persistence. He had read, studied, and prayed, apparently without avail. One day, as he was pondering some of the great truths revealed in Christian Science, the foregoing citations came to his thought. On analysis he found that his starting-point in handling the problem had been the error, with all its vicious implications and complications. Starting with error, he had ended with it. The premise being incorrect, the conclusion was wrong. Furthermore, he discovered that he had been endeavoring to work from evil to good, from error to Truth, from discord to harmony, from the unreal to the real, which in effect meant that he had been trying to work from nothing to something. This was shown to be self-evidently absurd, for it is manifestly impossible to work from nothing to something, from minus to plus.
Beginning with God. Spirit, Truth, that which is real and harmonious, he began to glimpse the great "starting-point of divine Science," that "God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind." His problem had embraced the belief of minds many and a power apart from God. Starting with the one Mind, its omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience, dwelling on the positive, the absolute, that is, dwelling "in the secret place of the most High," he gradually but surely realized, in demonstration, the abiding protection of the Almighty, and his prayers were answered.
