Christian Science offers to mankind the promise and the proof of heaven. After an instantaneous healing the writer was quick to grasp something of the fundamental truth of a universe wholly good and harmonious, and he began happily to identify himself as man in the image and likeness of the perfect creator, God.
Years of study and application of Christian Science teach us to handle the serpent of evil suggestions with absolute certainty of their powerlessness. We find the Bible clear and instructive, and the historical record of an ancient people unfolds to our increasing delight the Christ-way, God's plan of salvation, leading us out of the illusions of mortal existence. When, like the children of Israel, we find ourselves about to be overtaken by the enemy at the Red Sea, by forces of darkness, by pressing needs and problems of the day, with no apparent way out, we can profitably study the wonderful story that has given the name Exodus to that book in the Holy Bible. Let us see what it has to do with you and me in the light of Christian Science.
Exodus means a going out. The book called Exodus starts with the children of Israel still in Egypt, serving "with rigour," and describes their being led finally by Moses out of this country toward the promised land. In our own experience we often start our journey for the promised land at a time when we find ourselves in an unpleasant position. We may look for causes where they do not exist, condemn ourselves, blame others, indulge in self-pity, and thus do the wrong thing. But in Christian Science we have a very effective method of exodus, or exit, from any inharmonious, and thus erroneous, condition. Mary Baker Eddy says in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 275), "The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,—that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle."
