Early students of Christian Science sometimes wrote to Mrs. Eddy or to The Christian Science Journal or the Christian Science Sentinel, asking for answers to particular questions. Many of the illuminating answers she gave them may be found in her published writings.
One student asked if she was right in referring to herself as an immortal idea of the one divine Mind. The answer was clear and emphatic. It begins, "You are scientifically correct in your statement about yourself. You can never demonstrate spirituality until you declare yourself to be immortal and understand that you are so." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 242;
Someone else asked, "If all matter is unreal, why do we deny the existence of disease in the material body and not the body itself?" p. 217; The answer: "We deny first the existence of disease, because we can meet this negation more readily than we can negative all that the material senses affirm."
