Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 307, 308): "Above error's awful din, blackness, and chaos, the voice of Truth still calls: 'Adam, where art thou? Consciousness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief that mind is in matter, and that evil is mind, or art thou in the living faith that there is and can be but one God, and keeping His commandment?' "
What are mortals believing? Is it not too often that which mortal mind would fain have them believe? The earnest student of Christian Science, however, knows better than to do this, for he has learned and proved in some measure that only that which is of God is present or real. When with the rising sun he awakens to greet the coming day, he looks forward to it with joy, as something fraught with glorious opportunities to be happy, busy, and useful, to give and to bless, to comfort and to heal. He refuses to see in what is called today only a weary continuation of that which is called yesterday, with its perplexities and unsolved problems. He refuses to live in the echoing dreams of twenty-four hours ago. To the Christian Scientist, each morning brings with it a new page, untouched by any records of the mistakes and useless scribblings of the day before. It is as clean as a child's slate, freshly washed, ready to receive whatever imprint his thoughts will inscribe upon it.
The Christian Scientist is filled with gratitude as he realizes that these imprints can all be good if he refuses to accept material sense testimony, and lets Soul give him the spiritual sense of everything. Earnestly and humbly he prays that when the evening shadows fall there shall be found in his consciousness only notations for which he may gratefully rejoice—instances innumerable of God's love and tender care; thanks for a quickly answered appeal for guidance; for the long-delayed opportunity to forgive that which once seemed unforgivable; for strength to stand in an evil hour; for courage and calmness in some sudden emergency; for the ability to think rightly when confusion seemed all around him. The Christ-consciousness accepts no difficulty as insurmountable, no burden as overwhelming, no loss as irreparable, no situation as hopeless.
