THE Christian Scientist understands that the so-called miracles of Scriptural times were not infractions of law but natural demonstrations of spiritual power; and he sees their counterparts in the works of Christian Science today— sees them joyfully, but without wonder. In all these instances, in both ancient and modern times, the same thing essentially occurs. Someone with an understanding of God as infinite good, and of man as His perfect expression, stands before appearances that are unlike God, clearly and unwaveringly realizing the spiritual truth about man; and the evil appearances give place to the evidence of good.
That is the method of healing and redemption in Christian Science today; and, obviously, in the light of this Science, it is the method by which the sick were healed, the dead raised, and other similarly good and great works accomplished by Bible characters.
The difficulty which thinkers down through the ages have had in accounting for "miracles," has arisen largely from the assumption that matter is what it appears to be. Christian Science has shown that it is not at all what it seems, that it is not real — a revelation in which modern physics, in part, concurs. Christian Science has shown that what appears to be matter is a false mental picture. It has revealed that God. Mind, or Spirit, is in fact All, as the Scriptures indicate, and that matter — clearly different from this allness—-is a mistaken and illusory sense of being, an apparently outward aspect of the carnal or mortal mind, which is itself nonexistent.
