CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is the religion of power. It is the revelation of the infinite power of God bestowed upon man and is available to each of us here and now to meet every human need.
People in general consider power as a material force or human authority applied for or against them. Mortals fear the thunder of cannon, the searing flames of bombs, the fire, flood, tornado, earthquake; the ability of material conditions to harm them, or of other people to take jobs or possessions away from them and so control their lives and actions. Mortal knowledge and material means have no power to destroy the fear of these vociferous claims of error, which are as unreal as is so-called mortal mind itself, of which they are the objectifications. This is why matter cannot cure matter.
The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, presents an exultant hymn of praise for the power of God as manifested to men in annulling the supposed laws of matter. From Moses to Jesus and his disciples signs and wonders attended the lives of those who in some degree perceived that God and man are inseparable as cause and effect. The waters parted to give a dry path; the ax head floated; the storm was stilled; the multitudes were fed in the face of material evidence of lack; the cruse of oil and the barrel of meal failed not; leprosy was healed; the blind came seeing; and the dead were raised.
