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A Golden thread runs through the writings of Mary Baker Eddy which, if followed, will lead the student of Christian Science to the understanding of man's dominion over all the earth. This golden thread is the spiritual idea, Christ, which shows mankind all truth.
A Student of Christian Science had been trying for several weeks to revive a wilting plant. Each day it would respond to her loving care, but in a few hours it would wilt again.
Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered.
One of the first lessons one learns in turning to Christian Science is how to rely upon God, divine Mind, the one and only Physician, who heals all sorrow, despair, helplessness, sin, and disease. This Science helps us to understand that harmony is real and discord unreal.
In the Glossary of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" ( p. 583 ), Mary Baker Eddy gives the spiritual meaning of Church as "the structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.
In her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states a proposition which she terms "the leading factor in Mind-science. " It is this: "Mind is All and matter is naught.
Describing the turbulent mental struggle of mankind in terms of stormtossed mariners, the Psalmist sang: "Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
When the rich young man asked Christ Jesus what he should do to inherit eternal life, he was directed to obey the Commandments. He replied that he had always kept them.
In Christian Science the metaphysical process of gaining spiritual receptivity can be described as the mortal mind yielding to the divine. It is the surrendering of the human self to the spiritual.
Christian Science has come as Truth's revelation to this age. Not from the human intellect, not from any formulation of the human mind, but as discovery made through awakened spiritual desire, Mary Baker Eddy perceived the provable truth of God and His universe and made it available to mankind.