Mary Baker Eddy asks: "Who wants to be mortal, or would not gain the true ideal of Life and recover his own individuality? I will love, if another hates. I will gain a balance on the side of good, my true being" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 104). Grasping the import of these words, some seeking healing have honestly striven to gain a balance on the side of good. And they have found that this balance, or excess of good, is sufficient to effect freedom from disease.
Mark how Mrs. Eddy uses the word "balance" in the quotation cited. It is comforting to learn that complete faith in and perfect understanding of God, while, of course, the goal of every Christian Scientist, are not required for a demonstration of Truth. What is required is that our faith in and understanding of God be greater than our belief in the suggestions of discord.
Some other commonly accepted meanings of the word "balance" are equilibrium, equipoise, steadiness, stability, evenness, poise—qualities ever inherent in every child of God. And "unbalance" signifies want of balance, being thrown out of equilibrium, unevenness, derangement. Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 421), "Derangement, or disarrangement, is a word which conveys the true definition of all human belief in ill-health, or disturbed harmony."
