DO students of Christian Science have problems? If so, do their problems differ from those of others? Yes, students of Christian Science do seem to have their problems. And all the humanly perplexing questions, situations, or circumstances which are common to mankind are the same which confront students of Christian Science. Just as the winds and waves, spoken of in the seventh chapter of Matthew's Gospel, beat with equal force against the house built upon the rock and the house built upon the sand, even so the forces of "the strong man," mortal mind, beat with the same vehemence against the students of Christian Science and those of other faiths or of no faith. The difference is not in the temptation, the situation, or the problem. The difference is in the means used to overcome the temptation, improve the situation, or solve the problem.
The Christian Scientist uses spiritual means. He proves that an understanding of God and man outweighs all other means or methods in healing the sick, comforting the sorrowing, and reforming the sinner. In the case of the two houses referred to, the first man solved his problem of security by building his house upon a rock; the second failed to solve his problem because he built on the shifting sand. Students of the Bible and of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy are building their houses upon the rock of Truth, Life, Love, Principle. They are daily proving they have a practical Science, a sure method, a spiritual means, to work out the problem of being. If anyone doubts this statement, let him study this Science and practice it; then he will prove it for himself. He will find the results sure and satisfying.
To the student of Christian Science no problem is overwhelming. Just as all we actually need to solve any mathematical problem is to know the law of mathematics governing it and to apply the law, so all we actually need to solve any human problem is to know God, the divine, infinite Principle of all being, the Mind that creates, constitutes, and governs man, and to apply this knowledge scientifically. This knowing God and obeying Him brings our thinking and daily living into harmony with God, divine Principle; then this Principle, Love, "worketh in [us] both to will and to do of his good pleasure."
