CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS appreciate and are grateful for the tremendous contribution of their religion to the thinking of the ages, for Christian Science focuses all that is truly good into the pattern of reality. They know it does this by revealing God as the author of all good and of good alone and as the only author of anything that exists. They are no less grateful for its parallel achievement of focusing all that is unlike good into the pattern of unreality by proving that what is unlike good has no author and is therefore illusion.
It would, of course, be too much to say that the world as yet sees and correctly evaluates this indispensable service of Mary Baker Eddy, who, by discovering Christian Science, made available the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus. But it would not be too much to say that Christian Scientists know that men will increasingly receive and acknowledge the benefits accruing from the triumphant spirituality by which Mrs. Eddy performed this service. Meanwhile Christian Scientists are resolutely making clear in their own lives and in the experiences of those who seek their aid that their Leader's achievement means no less than everything for mankind. That is why Christian Scientists appraise highly their own activities pursued in consequence of their devotion to their religion. It is why they purpose to be forthright without being obtrusive, humble without being timid, self-appreciative without being egotistical, helpful without being gullible, alert without prying into the privacy of their fellow men.
Broadly speaking, the history of mankind is a record of groping for truth. The record is meaningful in the degree that it is interpreted in terms of unfolding glimpses of the one true God. The so-called senses of mortals do not see truth nor realize that it is always the manifestation of divine, allknowing Truth, or God; but spiritual sense both sees and realizes it. Material sense may claim to see an inverted and limited concept, but it is such concept, not truth, that is material and therefore false. Perceiving the reality of the true concept and speaking of human history, Mrs. Eddy declared (The People's Idea of God, p. 1), "Every step of progress is a step more spiritual."
