One may never have been a worshiper of idols, either in a supposedly enlightened sense or in a heathen sense, and yet may discover that he has been unwittingly holding in thought images or beliefs that are essentially as material as are idols of wood or stone. That these beliefs form no part of God's creation, and manifest no true intelligence or power, is proved as one learns to demonstrate the truths of Christian Science.
Christian Scientists have been awakened to the need of improving their concept of God and of man by replacing idolatrous beliefs with spiritual facts. The true way of accomplishing this result is given by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 5 of her Message to The Mother Church for 1900, where she says, "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost mean God, man, and divine Science," and she continues: "I see no other way under heaven and among men whereby to have one God, and man in His image and likeness, loving another as himself. This being the divine Science of divine Love, it would enable man to escape from idolatry of every kind, to obey the First Commandment of the Decalogue: 'Thou shalt have no other gods before me;' and the command of Christ: 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' On this rock Christian Science is built."
In all her writings Mrs. Eddy exalts God as supreme; as omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, omniactive; as Principle, Life, Truth, Love, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Father-Mother, the infinite source of spiritual ideas.
