CHRISTIAN SCIENCE indicates that man's source, indeed the source of all that is real, is God, good. Those to whom this truth is becoming known are doing all in their power to come close to this source which supplies true happiness. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 329), "If men understood their real spiritual source to be all blessedness, they would struggle for recourse to the spiritual and be at peace."
In the words "bless," "blessed," and "blessing" we find everything that is desirable or wanted by everyone. Among the definitions of these words in Webster's Dictionary, the following are included: "To make happy; confer prosperity or happiness upon"; "favored with blessings; blissful; joyful"; "means of happiness or welfare; a beneficent gift." Now although we each may interpret these definitions as we see fit, we are agreed that this is about what we want.
Why is it, however, that while each is working toward these objectives in his own way, there often seems to be little of them at hand? The accumulated human wisdom of the centuries has not been able to outline an infallible pattern for the searcher. Could it be that the search has been in the wrong direction? Or could it be that while one here and there out of the millions and millions of searchers has found some measure of spiritual good, he has been unable to pass it on because of his unfamiliarity with the Science of good? Or, possibly, when communicating to another person the good he has found, the different background of this person has prevented his receiving it?
