With pertinency and tenderness our loving Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, spoke these words in her first address in The Mother Church in 1895 (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 110): "Beloved children, the world has need of you,—and more as children than as men and women: it needs your innocence, unselfishness, faithful affection, uncontaminated lives."
In Christian Science the great fact of God's allness is provable. As we gratefully claim our heritage as children of God, the infinite, loving Father-Mother, we awaken to our true childlikeness, and we see that man's normal and happy state of being is free from sin and sickness. Christ Jesus said. "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." The true child-thought does not accept sin, sickness, or death as real. Accepting the fact of perfect God, and man as His perfect likeness, the Christian Scientist finds innocence and joy, purity and health, free from the impurities of belief in life in matter. Though human belief would require a long process of development from the first faint glimpse of God as Father to the complete realization of the freedom of Soul, wherein the infinity of good is proved, one may awake to his true identity, as dwelling now in the freedom and light of spiritual consciousness.
The student of Christian Science, deeply desirous of understanding and expressing the joy of innocence in relations with others, learns to demonstrate his freedom from so-called personal influences. Through the study of Christian Science it is seen that because man expresses God, our true identity is forever intact, untouched by aggressive phases of belief in matter, in personal sense or incompleteness, with its attendant false pleasures and fears. It is seen that God's man expresses Godlike qualities, such as love, intelligence, kindness, purity, and so forth. As thought dwells in the spiritual consciousness of God's allness, the mists of personal sense cease to appear as identity or individuality, and mortal mind's suggestions of hate, greed, pride, lust, dishonesty, give place to the vision of the perfect spiritual man, God's idea, untainted by the presumptuous lies of error's seeming activity. As one prayerfully keeps his thought within the sacred precincts of spiritual identity, one finds his experience is governed accordingly, and the joys of Spirit are abundant and natural.
