Many people keep a record of their forthcoming engagements, and sometimes they add afterwards a commentary, setting down their impressions of these events. The record of human events is of interest to the student of Christian Science, but he is more concerned with the unfoldment of spiritual ideas than with the history of material events as such. This Science explains that the true record of man must be wholly spiritual, because man in the image of God is spiritual, not material.
The spiritual facts of man's identity and coexistence with God are put on record for all time in the first chapter of Genesis, where it is stated that God made man in His own image and likeness and that everything God made was very good. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 531), "The mythologic theory of material life at no point resembles the scientifically Christian record of man as created by Mind in the image and likeness of God and having dominion over all the earth."
The Bible stories provide a record of human events, but they also give an indication of what the participants thought and of the influence which each one of them exerted on these events. The story of Darius and Daniel is a case in point. We give slight attention to the text of Darius' decree and to the details of the conspiracy of the presidents and princes. But we pay careful attention to Daniel's thoughts, so far as we can ascertain them, and to the prayers which comforted and sustained him.
