On the lawn of the public library of a New England city stands a large stone statue. Several hundred boys used to pass this building on their way to school, and in cold weather it was quite the thing to hit the face of the statue with a snowball. Some years the snowballs would freeze, hiding the features of the statue and making it unrecognizable throughout the winter; but the warm spring sun would always melt away the frozen snow. Then the face of the figure in stone would stand forth unchanged and unharmed by the winter's accumulation. The snow always remained on the outside of the statue and never penetrated the solid stone.
Christian Science explains sin and discord of every nature as never entering man's real being. Indeed, they never even touch man. They are no more part of him than the snow was part of the statue. Although appearing very real during the winter of temptation—fear, self-pity, ingratitude, discouragement, and sin—they invariably melt under the warmth of the realization of Love's presence and control of man. Their existence is not actual but suppositional; hence these beliefs are not in man but only in a false sense of self. It is heartening to know that man in the likeness of God is unharmed and unimpaired by strained relationships, illness, or the lies of frustration and failure. More impervious than stone is to snow is man's spiritual being to discord or disease.
God and His creation are eternally perfect. God, divine Principle, is the source, origin, and cause of all that exists. There can be nothing beside, or outside of, God, for He is all-inclusive Being. All action proceeds from and is governed by Him. Divine Love never fails for an instant to care for, bless, and guard with its own omnipotence each one of its children. Soul forever understands, delights in, and approves of its offspring—its expression. Every idea and function of man's being is in order and rightly active, expressing the perfection of his unvarying, unopposable Principle.
