One in the freedom of the truth,
One in the joy of paths untrod,
One in the heart's perennial youth,
One in the larger thought of God.
These words from a long-loved hymn by Samuel Longfellow have much meaning for earnest students of Christian Science, who are learning to base their reasoning on oneness: one God, infinite Mind; and one compound idea of God—man, including the universe. Mary Baker Eddy succinctly states (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 356), "The infinite is one, and this one is Spirit; Spirit is God, and this God is infinite good."
Realizing that this fact of oneness is the only reality, those who have accepted the truth revealed in Christian Science are daily declaring and striving to demonstrate scientific unity. In the human experience of working toward this demonstration, however, it is not surprising that certain spiritual facts are apprehended quickly by some students, while by others different points of revelation are laid hold upon more readily. The very infinity of the subject we are studying seems occasionally to cause us to see different phases of the one truth.
