Can God and His Christ be first in the affections of men while hope of security is placed in the inventions of men? Has matter within itself any life-giving or life-saving properties? Today material science faithfully pursues its unprecedented effort to find within its realm devices offering some legitimate assurance of security. There is, however, growing awareness of the fact that all such inventions must of necessity reflect the limitations of the human mind. Therefore they must be found wanting in the life-giving and life-preserving qualities of Deity. Throughout the world today increasing numbers of thoughtful men and women, weary of walking in the darkness of materiality, are turning their gaze Godward. In the illumination of the Science of Christ, revealed in this age by Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Scientists are finding the way wherein those seeking God's precepts may walk at liberty upon the earth.
In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 572): "In Science we are children of God; but whatever is of material sense, or mortal, belongs not to His children, for materiality is the inverted image of spirituality." On page 545 of the same book she points out that "outside of Christian Science all is vague and hypothetical, the opposite of Truth." Only in Science then is reliable evidence of God's creation to be found, for there God is revealed as the one altogether good Supreme Being, the divine, creative Principle of all. Then what of that realm which our Leader terms "outside of Christian Science"? It is but the material sense of creation, which Science reveals to be illusory, untrue, unreal, without divine origin or authority, and therefore unknown to omniscient Mind.
In Science, man, the true likeness of God, is constantly upright. The perfect concept of divine Mind is forever untouched by mortal mind's false concept. As the truths of Science are apprehended and demonstrated the mask of materiality falls away, and we begin to glimpse the true expression of God's being, the real man, the work of His hands. In Science then is to be found the true understanding of perfect God and His perfect creation; outside of Science one finds only suppositional ignorance of His wondrous works and the sad harvest of human woes resulting from that ignorance.
