The student in college is faced with periodic challenges for mental review. So is the Christian Scientist. Only these challenges come more frequently than do college examinations. Truth's insistent, Where art thou? Whom servest thou? face us day by day and force us to take a mental inventory.
We are living in an age of deep soul-searching. Humanity's great need is to know what God is, and Christian Science gives the answer. Gradually the limited concept of a personal anthropomorphic God is being abandoned, and mankind is reaching out for something better.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, sought and found her concept of God in the Bible. Through years of prayerful searching and patient proving she was led to define God in seven synonymous terms: as Mind—not a supreme Being with a mind, but as Mind itself, incorporeal, unerring, infinite; as Spirit or Soul, all-powerful, ever-present, eternal; as divine Principle, expressed in precision, perfection, and order; as Truth, the source and substance of law; as Life, incapable of death; and as Love, changeless, triumphant, and serene. These terms reveal God as one stupendous, self-existent Whole, indivisible and complete.
