Christian Science states, in conformity with the Bible, that all the universe of God's creation is perfect, spiritual, and harmonious, under the everlasting government of its divine Principle, Love. That is the absolute and only truth about it. But finite sense—that consciousness which receives the ordinary impressions of everyday life and material phenomena—is altogether too limited to comprehend the glories of infinite Truth.
Proportionately, therefore, as the material concept fades out before the Christ, the spiritual and divine— as the old man is put off for the new —does the understanding of God and His perfect creation dawn upon the thought. But into the darkness of this illusory human consciousness our loving Father-Mother is always sending His angels to lift our burdens and, in increasing measure, to lighten the gloom. And if we listen humbly for their messages, they will never fail to guide our actions and direct our thought.
These angels come to us in our difficulties and perplexities. They may come as a word spoken in season by a friend or practitioner, as a sudden uplifting thought, a verse from the Bible, or a sentence from our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that great book which, through spiritual strength, meekness, and inspiration, Mary Baker Eddy was enabled to give to the world in order to show mortals the way out of all their sufferings. Mrs. Eddy herself said (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 27), "As sweet music ripples in one's first thoughts of it like the brooklet in its meandering midst pebbles and rocks, before the mind can duly express it to the ear,—so the harmony of divine Science first broke upon my sense, before gathering experience and confidence to articulate it." Our Master constantly used simple but deeply effective little stories which we call his parables. In some places, we are told, he used no other form of teaching, for he recognized the inability of the people to comprehend the absolute truths which he came to impart and prove.
