IT is not difficult for a Christian Scientist, or, as a matter of fact, for any truly logical thinker, to agree that whatever is incorrect or erroneous comes under the designation of nothingness. It is obviously a mistake, wrong, and such errors have no real value.
In Christian Science one has the Principle and rule which will lead to the final and complete solution of the whole problem of nothingness. And what is the teaching of this Science? Briefly stated, Christian Science reveals to human consciousness the allness of Spirit and the nothingness of matter. It may be difficult for one to accept the truth that matter is actually nothing, but such an admission must eventually be made before perfection is fully demonstrated.
Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 480), "When the substance of Spirit appears in Christian Science, the nothingness of matter is recognized." To understand the nothingness of matter, there must be a step-by-step journey away from customary and popular assumptions of mortal mind. We have been taught in the past that man is materially evolved; that he is made of the dust of the ground. Man is generally thought of as a mortal sinner who may in some future life be saved, or, on the other hand, he may (according to the nature of the teaching one has been given) either suffer continuously after death or go into oblivion. These latter conclusions are clearly consistent with the error in the premise that man is made of matter, for that which is material is subject to all the beliefs which affect matter.
