WHEN a certain man addressed Jesus as "Good Master," the Master gently reproved him with these words (Matt. 19: 17): "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." Thus he directed the thought of the seeker after eternal life away from his person to God, the source and Giver of all true life and good.
Throughout her life as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy did all that was in her power to discourage the adulation and idolizing of her own and others' human personalities. In her writings she consistently turns the reader's thought away from finite person to the contemplation and adoration of divine Principle, or God. She knew that thereby she would not only ensure her students' spiritual growth but also the continuity of her Cause, for she writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 117): "There was never a religion or philosophy lost to the centuries except by sinking its divine Principle in personality. May all Christian Scientists ponder this fact, and give their talents and loving hearts free scope only in the right direction!"
Christian Science points out "the right direction," for it fully reveals the divine Principle of the teaching and practice of the Master. It interprets and demonstrates this divine Principle as God, Life, Truth, and Love, eternal, absolute, unerring. The teaching and practice of divine Science proceed from and rest upon this one divine, intelligent Principle, the fundamental law of which governs all its operations.
