Have you ever thought how it must have been to be the only Christian Scientist on earth? The one who was that, Mary Baker Eddy, writes: "Millions may know that I am the Founder of Christian Science. I alone know what that means." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 249;
Her followers can only surmise the glory and the struggle Mrs. Eddy knew as she walked the path blazed by Christ Jesus. Of her selfless search she says: "I must know more of the unmixed, unerring source, in order to gain the Science of Mind, the All-in-all of Spirit, in which matter is obsolete. Nothing less could solve the mental problem." Retrospection and Introspection, p. 34;
What a panoramic thought: "matter is obsolete"! All earthly ills compacted into one term, "matter." What makes it obsolete? "The All-in-all of Spirit." Spirit is infinite good, the All-in-all God. His universe is spiritual. And man is created to reflect God as His perfect idea. That is the absolute truth. Then, what of the false belief that there is life and mind in matter and that man is a mortal who sins, suffers, and dies? That is the obsolete.
