We need not submit to nor suffer adversity; we can triumph over it by reversing its claim to reality. God made all that has ever been made, and all His works are perfect. This fact can be demonstrated. Did not the Psalmist sing (Ps. 92:4), "I will triumph in the works of thy hands"?
Christian Science reveals the eternal truth that God—Life, Truth, and Love—is the only Mind of man, and that man is the flawless expression of this Mind.
It also provides the rule for its demonstration, for through spiritual understanding, triumph comes into daily experience. On page 123 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Divine Science, rising above physical theories, excludes matter, resolves things into thoughts, and replaces the objects of material sense with spiritual ideas." The scientific process of resolving things into thoughts heals the sick, the sinning, the perplexed, the sorrowing, as thousands who have tried it gratefully testify. The realization of man's original and eternal perfection is actually an awakening from the dream that man is a mortal. It is the dawning in human consciousness of the true status of man as he eternally is, the image and likeness of divine Mind, God.
