AN eminent electrical engineer, Charles P. Steinmetz, is reported to have said over a quarter of a century ago, "Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness and are of little use in making men and women creative and powerful." "Then," the report continues, "the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of God and prayer and the spiritual forces which as yet have hardly been guessed at."
As physical scientists in their research devote themselves to the study of the phenomena of the translation of matter into energy and energy into matter and ponder the possibility of the existence of what some have designated "anti-matter," it is of tremendous value to consider the basic proposition of Christian Science that there is in reality no matter or material energy of any form or character whatsoever. Mary Baker Eddy affirms in "the scientific statement of being" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468), "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."
Ultimately we all must get matter entirely out of the way as an opposing factor to accomplishment. This necessity was suggested to me one day as I watched a man drilling through the pavement in the street to reach a pipe that needed repairing. I saw that his interest was not in the matter lying above the pipe. He needed to get the concrete and the dirt out of the way. They were obstructions to the repair work which he wished to accomplish.
