Exultation surely has a place in Christian Science. According to one definition, "exult" means "to rejoice in triumph; to glory, as in victory." How natural, then, that a student of this Science should rejoice in victory, that he should glory in God's presence, for he finds that Christian Science enables him to triumph over sin and disease, sorrow and lack.
Throughout her writings Mary Baker Eddy sounds a joyous note of triumph, never a cry of defeat. A paragraph from her Communion message of June 4, 1899, reads (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 129): "The divine law gives to man health and life everlasting—gives a soul to Soul, a present harmony wherein the good man's heart takes hold on heaven, and whose feet can never be moved. These are His green pastures beside still waters, where faith mounts upward, expatiates, strengthens, and exults."
A student of Christian Science soon learns that God is not a faraway person who sits in judgment on mankind. The Christian Scientist finds God to be divine Love, which heals, comforts, and regenerates. He finds Him to be ever-present supreme Mind, expressing perfect, spiritual beauty, health, holiness, joy, and completeness. How inevitable, then, that the student who apprehends such a God should desire to obey and adore Him with all his heart and to exult in His presence. This spiritually enlightened attitude frees humanity from the temptation to revel in evil or in mere sensuous beauty and enjoyment.
