Articles

In the heart of many people there is an innate yearning to realize man's inseparable unity with the Father. The homesickness of the prodigal son illustrates this human yearning, which eventually tires of belief in material selfhood and rises to journey toward a full understanding of the real man.

Defining the basis of the radical confidence in God which Christian Science inspires, Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 368 ), "The confidence inspired by Science lies in the fact that Truth is real and error is unreal.

He who has the right idea of overcoming understands that overcoming involves not only doing good, but also being the man that in reality he already is. He therefore does not endeavor to change something real.

We need solid convictions. Convictions based on truth, on spiritual understanding of God, of God's man and God's universe.

The incorporeal and divine nature of God as ever-present Love has been revealed to the world through God's two witnesses, Christ Jesus, the exemplar of Love, and Christian Science, the law of Love, discovered in 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy. Christian Science, which is the complete and final revelation of the truth Jesus demonstrated, teaches that infinite Love, Mind, or Spirit, is one, the one perfect and eternal Principle or cause of all real being, the one universal Father and Mother of man.

Generally speaking, there are two bases of endeavor, the spiritual and the material, and the right choice of these determines true happiness, health, and harmony. Looking down the vistas of material existence, one sees sin, disease, and misery confronting mortals at every turn.

Conversing with his disciples shortly after the transfiguration, Christ Jesus gave them a valuable recipe for harmonious living. He said to them, as recorded in Mark (9:50) , "Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

Mankind have always sought various means for safety. Many have looked wholly to matter for it; others have found it in God's gracious metaphysics.

One who owns a store for selling goods is not satisfied to stock his shelves well and just let them stay that way. His prosperity depends on a good turnover; otherwise there is no profit.

Christ Jesus knew how to love his enemies; moreover, he knew that the peace for which humanity yearns must come through the individual's daily effort to overcome enmity wherever it is encountered. He was the most successful peacemaker the world has ever known, and he did not bring peace through appeasing evil; rather did he destroy evil through his reflection of divine Love.