Neither mystery nor fear is aroused in the thought of the careful reader by the terms "mental practice" and "mental malpractice" used by Mary Baker Eddy, the beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in her writings. In these contrasting terms attention is drawn to divinely right thinking based on what is eternally true concerning God and His creation, in contradistinction to the opposite false thinking or mortal imagining and willful desire.
There are right ways of thinking and acting in contrast to wrong and futile methods of thought and procedure. The Christianly scientific way must be chosen and adhered to and the wrong way discarded, if satisfying results are to be obtained. However, there need be no fear or superstition concerning one's own or others' material thinking, for Christian Science shows that all power belongs to the divine Mind, to good alone, and that evil is not power.
Christian Science shows the power of scientific thinking, and the instability and powerlessness of material thinking, which Jesus continually proved to be deceptive, and therefore insubstantial and subject to destruction. As the Way-shower, he healed by spiritual means that which was considered incurable, reclaimed the sinful, and proved death and limitation in any form to be unreal, in spite of all beliefs to the contrary.
