Mary Baker Eddy writes (Christian Healing, p. 11), "We are in the midst of a revolution; physics are yielding slowly to metaphysics; mortal mind rebels at its own boundaries; weary of matter, it would catch the meaning of Spirit." Again, she says on page 101 of "Miscellaneous Writings": "Christian Science and the senses are at war. It is a revolutionary struggle." These challenging statements, written about a half century ago, indicate the nature of Christian Science, which started a revolution in human thought that promises to continue until humanity is redeemed through divine Love. Christian Science pulls down the strongholds of faith in material processes and destroys whatever claims to interrupt the indissoluble relationship between God and man.
The late nineteenth century was conspicuous for advancement in material science, capitalistic economics, and an insidious interest in esoteric, pseudoreligious spiritualism, and hypnotism. The Discoverer of Christian Science, penetrating beneath the evidence of materiality, saw the spiritual nature of reality and demonstrated its validity in her own experience, healing the sick and raising the dead, thereby proving irrefutably the power of Mind over all forms of discord and rebuking the limiting beliefs of her day. Her example has opened up the way whereby any and all may join in the revolutionary struggle in which human suffering, frustration, and even death itself are eradicated from the human consciousness through the understanding of God. The possibility of living with spiritual conviction and of demonstrating the breadth and grandeur of immortal life is now a fact of common apprehension, and the truth is available to all.
Against what does Christian Science help us to revolt? Against belief in the existence of whatever affirms a finite human will, war, disease, anarchy, inability to co-operate; against the concept of man as separated from his creator; against limitation, false dogma, and the restrictions of physical sense. Mere dogma fails, for under it conformity is substituted for unselfish devotion to Spirit in a life of progressive revelation.
