In these times of struggles and shifting scenes, when national and international upheavals confront mankind, many individuals find themselves mentally and physically in what seems to be a country that is far from the kingdom of heaven. They may be faced with insurmountable personal problems, perhaps connected directly or indirectly with the activities of the war, with family relationships, or with a physical difficulty not yet healed. Any of these conditions could, in belief, take one into an alien territory far from the sense of well-being and confidence in good which belongs to man as the son of God.
The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, through her correct evaluation of Christ Jesus' words and works, gives the world the perfect remedy for its myriad ills. In her main work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," as well as in her other writings, Mrs. Eddy is constantly telling us that in order to experience harmony and health we must emerge from, and rise above, the false sense of life in matter—the material sense of existence—into the understanding of Life as Spirit, God. This statement from page 262 of Science and Health illustrates the point in question" "We must reverse our feeble flutterings—our efforts to find life and truth in matter—and rise above the testimony of the material senses, above the mortal to the immortal idea of God. These clearer, higher views inspire the Godlike man to reach the absolute centre and circumference of his being." In no instance does she tell us to use the truths of spiritual being to perfect, sanctify, or perpetuate the material sense of things, but rather to destroy this sense through a gradual spiritualization of thought, so that eventually we shall completely abandon the material unreality for the spiritual reality.
That this method of Christianly scientific practice is successful was proved by a student of Christian Science who was estranged from her family and as a result was experiencing a severe sense of loneliness. Accompanying this unhappy situation were many other manifestations of inharmony affecting her home life, working conditions, and supply. Turning wholeheartedly to the teaching of Christian Science for the solution of these problems, she found that she had wandered far from the kind of thinking which she knew to be correct.
